Yachats

August 6th
Lincoln city to Yachats
50 miles

Cold ride today. Not difficult terrain. Saw prehistoric sacrificial arena called "Devils Punchbowl". Note the blood on the picture. Crossed a few bridges which are always fun and dangerous. A few whales appeared to enjoy the beautiful environment. Its wonderful to see pine trees on your left and the ocean on your right. Blake decided to eat all the Barbaras blueberry fig newtons. He even took a picture of himself doing so. Every aquarium on the way was closed. One enjoyable part of the trip was seeing the Kite surfers. An extreme sport where surfers strap parachute like kites to their bodies and travel at like 35 miles per hour three four miles out into the ocean and come back then fly ten twenty and sometimes fifty feet into the air. They come crashing back to the water and shatter their ankles. In Yachats we stopped in a small market and made our famous sanwiches and ate them in the parkinglot. We hung out with the locals and learned that we could sleep in the park. We ended up sleeping at the park on some rocks. I was scared of the thunderous waves so i prevented us from sleeping on the sand below. Sleeping there could have led us to our death while enlcosed in our mummy bags. It is a general rule that you shouldn't sleep so close to the water especially when its pitch black and you don't know where you are. Either the tide comes in or the sea monsters get you.