Lighthouse Host-es with the Mostest!

As I walk the beach of Fort Stevens during a gray, overcast sunset, I feel melancholy that my lighthouse quest is now over.  It has taken me a month just to do my “coastal crawl” justice.  I have had some wonderful experiences along the Oregon Coast, from bushwacking to see Cape Arago, to tide pooling with Life’s Little Adventures in Cape Blanco, to the enchanted carrousel of Umpqua River light.   But it feel like it ended with such a thud.   I am not ready to leave the coast…but would I ever be ready? Continue reading

Lands’ End

I knew beforehand that my last stop in my Oregon Lighthouse Exploration was going to be anticlimactic.  I could barely see it, let alone feel it.   At over a mile off shore, the best I could hope for was a few grainy, distant photos.   No way to come close, let alone have the intimate experiences I had had with the other six lighthouses now in my rearview mirror. Continue reading