Tsunami
It turned quite misty yesterday evening, but, thankfully it had mostly cleared by dawn, with just the odd patch remaining. It was cool first thing, at around 10 degrees when we headed out, sometime around 07:00 again.
We left Highway 101 within a few minutes of leaving our motel and took some quiet more minor roads with virtually no traffic. Some time later we were on 101 again but that was quiet too. Then the route took us off on a loop road, up a climb through some woods. While on that section we caught up with a Seattle couple who were riding to San Diego (pretty much the same as us). From the luggage they had onboard I thought they must be camping but, no, they were also staying indoors and had booked their accommodation for the whole trip before starting out! By the time we emerged onto 101 again it was heaving (around midday). The Seattle couple reckoned it will quieten down after the holiday weekend 🙂.
While on 101 we are continuously in and out of Tsunami Hazard Zones. On a board at one of the viewpoints we stopped at, we read about the Cascades tsunami of January 26, 1700, with an estimated magnitude of around 9. The length of the fault rupture was about 1,000 kilometers, with an average (undersea) slip of 20 meters causing an average wave height of 15m and up to 30m in places – imagine the devastation caused by that. Our motel has an evacuation map in the folder along with suggested places to eat!
Where we stopped at our daily espresso shack a lovely old chap came over and chatted to us and welcomed us to the US. He was a Vietnam vet who had come back with horrendous injuries and spent years in hospital. A very nice man 🙂.
I noticed a couple of dead racoon on the road today, they can’t be very tasty as the crows don’t seem to touch them 😉.
Today we have ridden 111km with 1177m of ascent, again including an extra little bit to the shop and back. We are staying at Depoe Bay.
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