It's been a long time. I have no excuse. I would never allow the people I supervised to use the excuse for not getting something done, "I was too busy." So, darn, I can't use it here either. I guess the blog was a lower priority than everything else I have been doing since early May.

We have kind of settled into a work routine. We started out working Thursday through Sunday, but two other RV volunteer couples have arrived and settled in, and our work schedule now is Wednesday through Saturday. Today is Sunday, a day off for us, and a day to do laundry and catch-up stuff. The blog is catch-up stuff.

Three new photos were posted. The first is Shannon at the VC doing visitor services. This mostly consists of being behind a counter and mostly going over the site map, which is a trail map, explaining where the trails are and what can be seen. This is a fee area; so, we do sell passes plus sell items from the bookstore. Anyway, this is Shannon in action.

The second photo is Thor's Well and Cook's Chasm. Thor's well was a cavern carved out of the rocks and the ceiling to the cavern has collapsed. So now it is a round opening in the rocks with an opening to the ocean underwater. Water boils out of it as the surf breaks over the rocks. When the tide is high, it becomes very spectacular. Story goes that someone photographed it, called it "Thor's Well", and published the photograph. People come literally from all over the world to see Thor's Well. The most commonly asked question at the VC is, "Were's Thor's Well?" Cook's Chasm is a path cut through the rocks along a fault line that allows the surf to come crashing inland further than the normal coastline. It's a spectacular surf display especially during high tide. And, actually in the photo you can see the chasm but the Well is not doing much and you can't see it very well. Hey, I got it. Come see us and we'll show it to you.

The third photograph is taken from on top of Cape Perpetua. It is 800 feet above the coastline and is the highest point one can drive to along the coast. The view is mostly southwest, and you can see the VC on the edge of the tree line to the left. It's a great place to watch sunsets which we were doing with Kedric and Paul when we took this photo. This would be a great and safe place to be when the tsunami hits after the big earthquake. More about that if I can do a future blog. Captain James Cook named Cape Perpetua in 1776. It is thought that he had sighted the cape around the time of St. Perpetua's birthday celebration.