October 16, 2013

Rode down and walked through the Wednesday Market in Coos Bay this afternoon

Juicers are still popular where there are a lot of reasonably priced vegetables

Fudge anyone?

Was going to pick up some new tie dye undies, but all they had was t-shirts

Nice looking peaches

Fall flowers

Fruits, vegetables, Artisan booths, bakery, food, and even entertainers.  2 full blocks of booths

All hand made wooden boxes and toys

Fun time walking through to vendors

Coos Bay's Board Walk.  Fishing, eating, and just enjoying the water. The Coos River at it's mouth becomes Coos Bay.  The river flows into the Pacific Ocean about 5 miles West as it passes out of the Charleston Harbor town.

This old girl has seen better days.  Ocean going tug, many trips to the Islands

A nice sail boat in the river

CGC Orcas.  One of my last projects in the Coast Guard.  This cutter was built in Grand Isle, Louisiana.  Made many trips down there to the shipyard to verify the correct placement and condition of the machinery.  Engine bedding, reduction gear, and shaft bearings were to big jobs. Then I rode the boat when it was taken out for Sea Trials on completion.  Now it's just an old boat.  That was back in 1989.

Not real impressive, but this was the original building that housed Sherm's Cycle Products.  For a while, we were one of the busiest shippers for the local UPS.  

It's been the Fabric Shop since we moved out.  The upstairs was the stock storage and small item workshop.  Downstairs was the larger show room and service center

Nice sign

Smelling the salt air and the fresh cut logs brings back a lot of memories.  Mostly good :-)

A newer railroad and logging musuem

Old Yeller

Log loader

Interesting

Lots of things inside the building

Old 104

This caboose had a generator and restroom facilities. 

Big Donkey

The railroad recently was taken over by the Port of Coos Bay, and is back in business hauling lumber

The logging museum has a lot of old newspaper articles and lots of pictures beside the hardware

Didn't know the old Loggers had Keurig Coffee makers

Old Chain saws.

Only on the Oregon Coast to they sell spiked logging boots made out of rubber.

Free is good

If this big tug could talk, I would imagine it would have a lot of
"Sea Stories"

Square Stern

Loading wood chips

One more Orcas picture

Trucks haul in chips from the valley and dump them here to be loaded on ships that go overseas to made things that they send back here to sell

Memories from the SCP days

Chip pile right across Hwy 101 from my old shop.  Our cat used to run across the highway often.  We named him Frogger

Border between Coos Bay and North Bend

Log Deck in Eastside.