Brookings is just over the Oregon border, just north of Crescent City which is just north of the Redwoods.  After parking at the Elks Lodge we decided to go hiking again in the redwoods south of Crescent City – sort dumb if you think about it since we drove through there the day before and its about 35 miles back.  Oh well.  Anyway here is how beautiful the place is and why we came back.

And them, of course, I have to get in the act.

Back at Brookings it was time to finally clean the rig (home) outside.  I think there is about 1,200 square feet of urethane painted siding and 500 square feet of windows!!  Anyway, it has to be done.

Not withstanding me being in the photo, I thought the colors here along with the sky were great – of course, that is tempered by the fact that I am red-green challenged!

As I was working, I kept hearing this screeching in the sky and I looked up and there was this Osprey flying up and then diving and then up and diving and . . . well you can see what I mean.

After that we were off north along the coast with a goal of eating cheese at Tillamook, OR, the home of Tillamook cheese.