With the intention of doing some serious Internet catch up in Gold Beach we climbed onto our trusty steeds at 8:30. I figured that after our fantastic day of cycling into Bandon, we would be well deserving of a few hills today! We are obviously, however, due some major climbs soon as yet again our day was climb free and yet crammed full of downhill stints.
Leaving Bandon took us past the golf course it is famed for! We had naively assumed Bandon was little more than hwy 101 and the quaint downtown area, and yet as we cycled out there was a well established (even nice) suburbia which also had very little gradient to it.
The legs took a little waking up but before I knew it we were flying along again. At Langlois we stopped to send some post, then passed into Denmark, Sixes and Port Orford - all the way past sea stack after sea stack. We met a girl called Audrey in Oswald West State Park, and I remember her saying when she was growing up she didn't realise they didn't exist everywhere - it wasn't until she was older that she realised the true unique beauty of the Oregon coastline.
Past Humbug Mountain we wound our way around an inlet through a heavily forested area which was a pleasant contrast to the seascapes. Towards Ophir we drew alongside the ocean again and remained so until Gold Beach. At Nesika Beach we took the old coast road which seemed to lead into the middle of the nowhere and yet delivered us at the foot of a bridge into Gold Beach.
At 1pm we pulled into Chinook Inn Motel happy with ourselves for making such light work of the day's cycling. I only hope we have the same success with days to come.
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