Oregon Coast Dune Buggy Adventure

Oregon Coast

Dune Buggy Adventure

Road trip! Oregon Coast here we come!

Fall can be one if the best times to visit the beach in Oregon. We hope this will be one of those times. The weather report looks good and the Snowy Plover habitat restrictions have ended for the season.

Our mission: to take our vintage Dune Buggy for a ride on Horsfall Beach in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area.

The first leg of our journey is west through the Columbia River Gorge.

It's salmon season and the Columbia River is really busy. We recently purchased some beautiful line caught Chinook from a local tribe. It looks like fantastic fishing this year.

I took these pictures near the mouth of the Deschutes River.

What a beautiful drive this is! Even with the fire damage near the west end it's truly breathtaking.

Can you see that bit of smoke rising from the center of the cliff in the picture below? That's a bit of the Eagle Creek fire that's still not entirely contained. We are so lucky that many of the historical and iconic places in the Columbia Gorge were spared damage from the Eagle Creek fire this year. Many trails were damaged but the forest will recover and some say the Salmon should actually thrive post fire.

It was a little cloudy when we left home but the skies are beginning to clear!

Bonneville Dam

Washington State across the the Columbia River at Bonneville Dam.