Midway RV Park, Coos Bay, OR:  Another sunny day!  Sat outside for a while reading and then we decided to go back to the High Tide Café for breakfast.  Ate on their back deck on the South Slough of Coos Bay.  Left there and Mike wanted to go off the beaten path and check out a state park with a couple of water falls.  He found it in the book of things to do on the Oregon coast that Andrea gave us. We have used that a lot.  Thanks, Andrea!  It said in the book that it wasn’t easy to get to these falls but was well worth it.  Okay I said.  We drove down this pretty river valley that narrowed and narrowed.  And then the paved road turned into gravel and got even narrower.  The river was now a stream with lots of flat rocks and rapids.  The locals were out there basking on the flat rocks and splashing around in the stream.  We FINALLY got there and headed out to hike the trail to Silver Falls.  A beautiful trail with huge, old-growth pines.  This trail was first used by the early settlers as a wagon road and then it became a stage road, and then a logging road.  It was used until the late 50s! Must have been scary.  After hiking to Silver Falls we hiked to Gold Falls.  A really beautiful, rugged area.  Drove back which seemed a lot quicker than driving up there.  77 up there by the falls.  70 down here in Coos Bay.  

View from our table at breakfast this morning.

On the trail to Silver Falls.  Beautiful!  This was once a stage road!

Trees covered in moss.  Primeval!

Silver Falls