Originally Posted by
andrewclaus
There's another issue besides the wind--the views. Southbound, you can easily stop anywhere along the guardrail and look the seals you hear down there. You don't have to cross traffic getting in and out of viewpoints. You have views uninhibited by traffic, pavement, guardrails, etc.
Funny we did not see many seals along the Oregon coast. But it seemed as soon as we hit the border in CA they just wouldn't shut up! So we surmised that Oregon seals are nice quiet polite creatures while California seals are rude, obnoxious loud mouths.
You are right on the views. The Oregon coast was spectacular. Someone described it as one big long Big Sur and they were pretty much right.
Sadly no matter how beautiful the view there were still those that chose other distractions:
