Now Florence turned out to be a different story than Coos Bay.  The people at the church we visited on Sunday – not many young folks – indicated that Florence was voted the number 2 place to retire in 2011, or something like that.  You know those old folks, they can’t remember hardly anything.  We struggled a little to see why it would be voted so high as we drove around but we have to say it was very nice and, of course, the weather in that part of Oregon is pretty mild except for the rain – hardly any snow, they said.  But we stopped by this little bar that had a band and a volunteer singer that had dropped in from San Francisco and was singing for free as all the young’uns danced. I’m being facetious of course, it is just like the Villages here and we are running away from that.

Florence is located on the Suislaw River that dumps into the ocean and deep sea fishing is the rage there.  You can see the results of the early morning fishing that day.  Next to the dock were 6 cleaning locations and it was busy with guys waiting.  The second guy had four salmon and he would strip a fillet off turn it over and strip the other side and throw the rest of the fish in the garbage can.  You can see him working here.

So I asked him if he was going to throw away the next one knowing he was so I asked if we could take it.  Lynn’s eyes got the size of an Caucasian and so excited that she went to find a plastic bag in the car.  Here is a photo of her in the kitchen with her “catch.”

Soup, soup, soup, and then freeze the rest for later use and we are still eating that in Reno, NV.

But, at the docks there was one boat that sat at the docks and cleaned freshly caught sea tuna and people flocked to the boat to buy large quantities right off the boat.  Here is a photo of the boat.

We actually had a pretty good time in Florence.  Good restaurants!