The Port Orford Ocean Resource Team and the Surfrider Foundation invite you to share their vision of protecting our water as we ‘connect the drops’ from source to sea at the 3rd annual Port Orford Water Festival. April 17-18, 2010

Connecting the Drops: Land to Sea Sustainability:
What connects the highest peaks to the deepest oceans? Water. It is what nourishes our lush Oregon landscape, keeps our oceans alive, and sustains our way of life. Humans have an enormous responsibility to ensure the health of our water resource. The Port Orford Ocean Resource Team and the Surfrider Foundation invite you to share our vision of protecting our water as we ‘connect the drops’ from source to sea at the Port Orford Water Festival.

Yaquina Head at Dusk

After learning campsite etiquette, Helena De Bertodano and her family marvel at the wonders along America's North Pacific Coast.

A Telegraph.co.uk Article
Slightly modified for yanks

It was the yurt that sold it to me: the idea of driving down America’s rugged Oregon Coast camping in Mongolian-style domed circular tents sounded like an experience not to be missed. So I booked one night at a yurt at Sunset Bay in Oregon and on that tenuous hook hung a three-week family holiday. 

Thus on a Sunday evening in early July, we found ourselves winding down the stunning coastal road towards Sunset Bay. Appropriately, the sun was setting over the beach when we arrived. The sheltered shallow cove, encircled by sandstone bluffs, looked so enticing that our three children – sick of spending half the day in the car – clamored to be let out before we had even found our yurt. Off they scampered into the rock pools, finding crabs and – as my four-year-old daughter announced – lots of "enemies": sea anemones.

Stop and look around...

Enjoy local, succulent crab and watch master craftsmen build and show off their wooden boats. Take part in cheering your "ducky" to the finish line during Sunday’s Ducky Derby. Wooden Boat Show, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 17 and 18; Crab Feed, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 17 and 11 a.m. April 18 until crab is gone

Depoe Bay is said to be the “World’s Smallest Harbor.” Also called “The Hole in the Wall,” it is one of nature's most unusual and beautiful seaside places. The Pacific Ocean butts up against the steep landfall but there is a little hole in the rocks giving access to the tiny harbor.

By Jackson Long  Freelance reporter for the Daily Emerald
Photos by Nick Coté

Huge waves, warm weather and the beaches of Australia, California, South Africa and South America. That is the typical imagery for surfing, a sport that conjures up thoughts of summer days and the music of the Beach Boys.

But don’t think that surfing is just for warm weather beach-goers. In fact, the University has the largest surf club in the entire Northwest.

The club, which was started in 1995 by Bryan Bates, a legend in the Oregon surf community and a renowned surfboard crafter, is still running strong today with more than 30 members. For the past three years, senior Matt Hundhammer has run the club as the coordinator for all things Oregon Surf.

“Surfing is an outlet for us; for me personally, it has been the outlet that has allowed me to stay at UO,” Hundhammer said.

Nestled in a towering second-growth Douglas Fir forest along the southern Oregon Coast in Port Orford, WildSpring Guest Habitat boasts five of the most heavenly cottages on the Pacific coast and quite possibly, in the world. On five acres of Certified Wildlife Habitat, WildSpring is respectfully built upon old Native American grounds on a bluff overlooking a primitive stretch of Pacific perfection.