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Depoe Bay is a little, fun place between Lincoln City and Newport.
(Look, friends, you can only say 'small Coastal town' so many times before you realize that that's hardly a unique thing. Anyway).
It is promoted that Depoe Bay is the 'world's smallest navigable harbor'. Again, as with the 'D' River in Lincoln City, there is no universally recognized authority that has the say. There may (or may not) be working harbors that are just a s'kosh smaller, there's no clear way of telling even in this internet-besotted age (and, to be sure, being connected to that vast mass of info seems to faithfully confirm little-to-nothing any more). But when one looks at it, it is pretty small and it is a busy place to be.
That's the whole of it, right there from my vantage point on the north end of the US 101 bridge over the cove's mouth. A lot of commercial fishing and charter trips come out of here, and the reputation of Depoe Bay as the place to watch the gray whale migration on the Oregon Coast doubtless boosts its economic throw-weight all the more.
The sign boasts similarly to the sign at he 'D' River crossing up in L.C.
I snapped da pix while the Brown Eyed Girl looked for souvenirs and salt-water taffy and there's a very friendly energy in Depoe Bay.
There's also a blockhouse on the north end of that bridge ..
Small, old type over the entry proclaim DEPOE BAY PARK, and the banner in the far right hand window there proclaim WHALE WATCHING CENTER, but the small sign in the entry way states closed-due-to-Covid.
There's a pandemic on, you know.
But we've got enough of our heads on straight, and our masks on those heads, that we can go out and enjoy.
And, just as off Boiler Bay, there were boats. Oh, buoy.
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