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Reedsport, Oregon
All Photos © Tim N. Touchton
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I took these photographs on June 27, 2000 after we left our
Reedsport hotel
and were heading south to Crescent City, California. We got to Reedsport well
after dark and I tried to find the lighthouse for some night time photographs
but I
wasn't sure where it was, so I decided to head back to the hotel. The next morning
we headed out to go along the coast on Highway 101 and to this lighthouse and
the Coquille River Lighthouse by Bandon, Oregon as well as the Cape Blanco
Lighthouse, which is the southern most lighthouse in Oregon. The Umpqua River
Lighthouse is another tiny lighthouse, but very beautiful with a large lens
for such
a small structure. You can see its height as compared to the fence. This lighthouse
is very well kept and in great shape from what I could see.
This lighthouse is part of a Coast Guard facility with resident
housing and fences
surrounding it. In the first photograph you can see a Coast Guard sign on the
fence.
There is a huge whale jaw bone on display by the lighthouse that washed up in
the
local area. There are ATV rentals everywhere here and you can look down the
hillside
by this lighthouse and see (and hear) the ATV's going by far below. The Oregon
Dunes,
in some areas, can go as far as 5 to 6 miles out towards the ocean. You could
get lost
and people sometimes do. We checked out the ATV rentals but they were too expensive
here and we would have to wait over an hour when some were returned, so we left
and
continued south. We eventually came upon the Pacific Coast Recreation Sand Dune
ATV
Rentals. They were priced well and very nice folks working there. Rich and I
rented two
and headed out on the Oregon Dunes for an hour long adventure. At first we were
a little
nervous, it was the first time either one of us had driven an ATV, but we soon
got the hang
of it and just let loose. We had a blast and tried most everything we could.
Before we left the
rental shop to go ATVing, the woman who rented us the vehicles talked to me
and Rich about
"teenagers" and how they always flip the ATV's and do things they
should not do. Rich was
careful, but we both still hauled full throttle, climbed very high dunes and
basically had a great
time. We headed back to the rental shop to rent them for an additional 30 minutes
and I got
my video camera to we could film each other. We're both glad we rented them
for another
30 minutes. We were now way behind schedule, but we also had the time of our
lives. The
Pacific Coast Recreation place also had some really cool items of interest in
their shop. I
bought a simply beautiful painting of the Coquille River Lighthouse on wood.
Information about the Umpqua River Lighthouse:
The Umpqua River Lighthouse, erected in
1857, was Oregon's first beacon.
It collapsed and was rebuilt 27 years later
in 1894.
The present lighthouse built in 1894, it is operational and is about 5 miles
south of Reedsport, Oregon near
Winchester Bay. The lighthouse height is 65 feet, 165 feet above sea level on
a bluff. In 1957, two years before Oregon
became a state, the original lighthouse was the first erected on the Oregon
Coast. Built at the mouth of the Umpqua
River on sand, the lighthouse foundation quickly eroded and the tower soon toppled
over during a flood in 1861.
The current Umpqua River Lighthouse, built in 1894, sits further back from the
ocean shore than any other
Oregon lighthouse. Umpqua River Lighthouse is the last light on the Oregon Coast
shinning a white and red beam.
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