BEACH TRIP!

Beautiful, right? This was the day before yesterday - in Lincoln City, Oregon in the middle of JANUARY! I love the beach, and I love sharing - so naturally enough - I am going to share a wonderful day at the beach with you. Enjoy!

The shadow is me and that cute little hairy thing is my dog Dixie; she loves the beach as much as I do!

There were a few special occasions documented - these are some of my favorite parts of visiting the beach. One thing I have noticed from all my years of beach combing is people tend to write positive things in the sand. 

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We write in the sand 

Much differently than stone

Wind and waves claim it

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Fun Story Interjection Time!

So... the next few pictures are of the D' River and what I would call the D' river estuary. It is a pretty small estuary though, seeing as the D' River is the shortest river in the world!

Here's where this gets to be fun. My best friend came to visit and saw the "D' River - World's shortest river" sign and flipped!

"Liars!" She claimed, as she proceeded to explain to me that her home town of Great Falls, Montana actually has the world's shortest river and we are all a bunch of fibbers. We would occasionally discuss the topic when it came up but never really did any investigating to see who's home town was really the record holder. 

Well I happened to be reading the Oregon Coast Today recently and came across an article on this exact topic! I'ma do a brief recap - and Halsey, you better read this!

Here's the story - D' River held the record measured at some 420 feet or so. Some kids in Montana measured their little river and wrote to Guinness and stole the record measuring in around 200 ft. Some people in Lincoln City said "F u little kids!" and decided to take this a little more seriously - the measured at high tide and low tide and found its distance varied from about 120'-420' or so.

The end result being.... Guinness dropped the category for world records seeing as the record holder literally changes with the tides.

So here is the D' River meeting up with the Pacific Ocean at reasonably high tide. Shorts river or not - its pretty!

And here are the last few pictures before my phone died. Sorry you all missed the amazing sunset that followed - but I thoroughly enjoyed it as I walked home. Next time I'll get some of the sunset and who knows, maybe more of me than my shadow!

                 

Marci

-With love