Jazz and Kayaking

August 18-19, 2022

Friends of Jada invited us to join them in Coos Bay for a free, public Jazz Concert at a beautiful venue in Mingus Park.  To see a bit more of Coos Bay, we had a great dinner and beer in town before the concert.  

The beer name was taken from the local indigenous tribes who were describing the wind as it screeched through the seven river channels and mountain ridges in the area.

Next morning we were paddling in Jada's
inflatable kayak up and down the Siltcoos River.

Beauty abounded along the waterway,
including this spider web
catching the morning dew.

After a short trip upstream, we turned
to begin our trek to the Pacific Ocean.
The sign on the bridge alerts
kayakers to the protected wildlife area.

See the great blue heron on the distant tree stump?

The shallows near the ocean 
were only ankle deep.

Jada is a great photographer, caught this guy
at the moment of take-off while
we were kayaking this morning.

Per the map, our kayaking took us 
well away from the river, but
we were always in the main stream
of the Siltcoos River.

The map shows this path for the river .  .  .  

.  .  .  while the satellite presents this view.
In fact, our trek shows the current river route 
is quite different from both!