Day 47 Sort of a day off

Started out the day doing laundry.  Three loads of wash and three loads into the dryer.  A great way to spend a morning.  Another week of nice clean clothes.  When you don't have a lot of clothes, they don't last long.

Went to lunch at a restaurant north of Newport called Izzys. The only thing I can say about them is that they had great cinnamon rolls for desert.  The restaurant was offering a buffet style so there was a lot to choose from.  Unfortunately, it was either dry from to long under the heat lamps or just generally tasteless.  

After lunch, it was off to the Yaquina Head lighthouse.  Originally built if 1873, it's still in operation.  The tallest lighthouse in Oregon and a real work out for the legs.   The wind was howling at 35 mph and the high today was only 57 so you can imagine it could chill you to the bone especially when you have forgotten the bring a coat.  Tracy at least had on two shirts but I came prepared in just a tea shirt.   A really smooth move on my part.  We had to wait for

a while outside just to get inside the lighthouse.   I can't imagine what it must have been like back then out there far away from most of civilization.  They had to lay in supplies for quite a period of time.  Up until the light house was built, there had been many ship wrecks along that part of the coast.  After it was built, there were a lot less.  The coast of Oregon has a habit of being unforgiving.  It took us three different insurance companies before we could get insurance on our boat since we were in Oregon.  It was at least sunny which was a blessing.

Back to the boat for the rest of the afternoon.  Ran into other sailers on the way out and had a nice talk about boats.  Had them over to see our boat.  Read radio manuals for the rest of the evening--boy, how exciting.

Let's all hope the wind dies down tomorrow so we can get the wind generator installed.