Lizette603_23, 5 months ago

@gearhead Was just looking at your map, on your site, seeing where you are. beautiful!!!

gearhead, 5 months ago

@Lizette603_23

Long story, for another time - how we landed here. Very fortunate & grateful.

FYI - We have a "general agreement" among residents that: We swear visitors to an oath saying if asked about this place they recite "It's windy, cold and always rains sideways. It's awful, don't go there, you wouldn't like it."

Too late really, the area is a destination:

https://www.bandondunesgolf.com/

Lizette603_23, 5 months ago

@gearhead well crap. Sorry. I'm sure it's ugly as hell and no one would like it.

Anthro, 5 months ago

@gearhead @Lizette603_23

Was going to say Bastendorf Beach!

gearhead, 5 months ago

@Anthro @Lizette603_23

N. Jetty & lighthouse Coquille River.

😎

Anthro, 5 months ago

@gearhead @Lizette603_23

Ok…so this is where my faltering brain kicks in…

I knew it was that lighthouse…but misplaced the names of the beaches! Bullards, not Bastendorf!

Too many great beaches.

Stayed there after proposing to my wife some 36 years ago.

Anthro, 5 months ago

@Lizette603_23 @gearhead

The photo attached to the poem I posted a few minutes ago is from the Port of Bandon …the last time I got to go there.

Lizette603_23, 5 months ago

@Anthro Was just looking at that....gorgeous

Lizette603_23, 5 months ago

@Anthro That's a lovely way to remember someplace, isn't it. Good on you.

Anthro, 5 months ago

@Lizette603_23

Stories are what make us.

Lizette603_23, 5 months ago

@Anthro Maybe that's what's happened here...we've forgotten our stories....

Anthro, 5 months ago

@Lizette603_23

Rocks have the longest memories.

They are my favorite form of long read.

Lizette603_23, 5 months ago

@Anthro I haven't learned their language in the kind of detail needed to do that, but I'm a fan of what we walk all over all the time. And what's under it.