the beach - day 2

Yesterday we woke up and had the continental breakfast here at the hotel. The sky was cloudy and it was a bit cold, but we weren't going to let that stop us. We got ready and headed out to Depoe Bay. It is a short drive, maybe 20 minutes, but by the time we got there it was sunny and hot and I was regretting wearing jeans. At least I was wearing flip-flops. We looked at a few of the trinket shops, but once you've been in one, you've been in all of them. We crossed the highway to the sea wall where we could see a gray whale just off shore. We went into the whale watching center where they had binoculars and we watched the whale spout, surface and flip his tail in the air. After a while, we went back to the car and drove a little ways farther south to Newport. In Newport we went to lunch at the Rogue Brew Pub and had some delicious food and beer. After lunch we walked up and down the bayfront where we eventually became mesmerized by some sealions who were basking in the sun and arguing over the best spots on the docks. We then headed slightly north to the Devil's Punchbowl, which isn't that impressive in the summer when the waves aren't very big and at low tide. About this time we got a call from Toby, whose band Almost is Nothing was playing a show in Newport. The "show" was in the parking lot of a CD store, and just before the show started it got cloudy, cold and misty. After they played, the cops shut down the show (not surprisingly) so we left back to Lincoln City and had dinner with the guys in the band and then went back to the hotel and went to bed.