Hello Friends!!  Well this trip went by far too fast but we fit in an amazing amount of fun , food and family time while we were at the coast.  One of the most fun days for all of us was  Kite Flying Day on Nye beach.  We got up early, went for our morning beach walk, then headed over the the local and HUGE kite shop.  With thousands of choices it wasn’t easy to decide which to buy, but we ended up with a fun stunt style kite (2 lines that control the wing to do amazing maneuvers)

THE KITE SHOP IN NYE BEACH WAS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE

EVERY KIND OF KITE, WINDSOCK AND WIND TOY YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE

THIS FISH KITE WAS ONE OF MY PERSONAL FAVES

THE BOX KITES WERE BEAUTIFUL!!

ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL BOX KITE

THERE WERE DOZENS OF BUTTERFLY AND DRAGONFLY CHOICES

I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT TO BUY THESE WINDSOCKS...NEXT TIME

A LOVELY TURTLE KITE WAS TEMPTING...TIE DYED RIPSTOP NYLON CONSTRUCTION

STEVES NIECE "ANNELISE" BLOWING BUBBLES ON THE BEACH

STEVE HELPING HIS NEPHEW "ANDERS" TO ASSEMBLE THE NEW STUNT KITE

WE BOUGHT THIS FUN WIND DISC FOR SOME BEACH FUN...THIS IS "ERIK" CATCHING THE DISC

STEVES NEPHEW "BEN" RACING WITH HIS FAMILY ON THE BEACH

ANDERS, STEVE, AND EINAR WATCHING BEN FLY THE STUNT KITE

I have so many incredible photos of the coast to show you and got very behind on my blogging because we have been just too busy to for me even load my pix on the computer.  I will be working on images tomorrow and posting all sorts of fun things later in the day.  In the meantime, take a peek at a few of the things we saw today on our very LONG day on the Oregon coastline.

We certainly  had a full day today, getting up at 4:30 AM to meet with our fishing boat captain for a 5 hour bottom fishing excursion.  We had initially set out to do salmon fishing but the salmon were not cooperating so we went for Rock Fish and Ling Cod.  I sat in as photographer and watched Steve and his family fish and recorded the fun!

STEVES NIECE “ANNELISE” GETS THE FIRST CATCH OF THE DAY.

Everyone on the boat caught something and Annelise managed to catch 3 large rockfish in a row while her brothers and parents were still jigging empty lines.   Annelise is NOT the fisherman in the family but might be now (BTW..she prefers to not eat em…just catch em..lol)

ANOTHER OF STEVES GREAT NEPHEWS “ERIC” CAUGHT HIS SHARE AND ADDED THEM TO THE BOX O FISH!

 ”BEN” IS THE OLDEST OF THE 4 AND CAUGHT A NUMBER OF LARGER FISH

THIS IS AN ORANGE “ROCKFISH”..THE SAME AS THE OTHERS BUT IN A UNIQUE COLOR.  WE WERE CATCHING A NUMBER OF THEM BUT IT IS REQUIRED THEY BE RETURNED BACK TO THE SEA

And where were Steve and I for half the trip…with our heads in our hands trying to keep our cookies down!!! We both lost the battle chumming over the deck railings,  but still had a great time no matter what