The volunteer stints at the Oregon State Parks last from the first day to the last day. They expect you to be packed up and gone by noon on the 1st of the month so that the next volunteer can get in and get set up.. The way our schedule is this month our last work day is Sunday, August 28 . Monday and Tuesday are normal days off and and Wednesday is our scheduled day off so it works out that we can leave early. So our plans are to pull out of the campsite on Monday morning and work our way north. We have two nights reserved at South Beach SP just south of Newport so we can stop along the way as we want to. I would have preferred to stay another night but there weren't any sites that were open for three nights. So we will head on home on the 31st .
Randa and I are ready to be home for a while. We have had a great experience, again , here and the cape but we are ready. I don't remember having so many days of fog. Having sunny days makes us happy. So many days of little or no winds to move the fog. We have had the heat on every day since we arrived on July 30th.
The park has changed as too. Well not so much the park as the lighthouse experience. The road out to the lighthouse is closed to the public. The road has deteriorated and it shows some signs of sluffing off in several areas, so the decision was made to restrict traffic to employees and volunteers only. The public must now park at the headlands and walk the 1/2 mile out to the site. Of course this limits the access to some folks.
In addition, the lighthouse tower access has been cutoff. There are several bricks in the tower structure that need to be examined by an engineer to determine if the stairway is safe for visitors to climb. Seeing the light and lens from the tower was the highlight of the visit to the lighthouse. It is so disappointing to tell our guests that they can no longer go up to the top.
Joe, the park superintendent , told me that through a grant, both the road and the tower are going to be examined to determine if either of the problems are fixable. I have my fingers crossed but fear the worst. The are two fault lines that cross the isthmus making it vulnerable to further damage. Some day the site may become an island.
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