On our trip back from Brookings, Margene and I took the scenic route off of Highway 101, and then took a little side track to follow a sign that said coastal trail. We found the coastal trail, and Margene wanted to hike it. Notice I say Margene wanted to hike it, because I advised her not to but she didn’t listen. It was .8 miles downhill to the beach which made it was .8 miles up back to the car. We made it but it wasn’t pretty sometimes. The trail started out fairly wide but quickly narrowed. We were passed by and lady with her son who was probably six and he was complaining he couldn’t see because the ferns were blocking his view as he was walking, that’s how narrow it got fairly quickly.  In many places it was barely a path. And then we got to almost to the end and the path actually washed away so it was very loose soil/sand to go through. Again we made it but it wasn’t pretty. The beach that was gorgeous well worth the trip.  Margene wasn’t sure if she was going to make it back across the “near death experience “part of the trail and then the whole slog uphill for almost a mile. But we persevered and made it!

The first part of the trail is fairly wide, but narrowed quickly

Here is the “near death experience” part of the trail

And the view right around the corner from that