The Mears Lighthouse

This light house is very unique. It  used to have candles Then they changed to the sun to power it with lots of glass to reflect to the light. It has a spiral staircase.Unique rocks in the ocean. The fog rolls in almost as fast as it clears up. I hope y'all enjoy the pictures

These rocks look like a frog and an elephant

Walkway down to the lighthouse

Sea foam  is dead very small animals like the ones whales eat

The glass makes the scenery look like its up sidedown

Fog rolls in very fast

It can clear almost as fast

The Octopus tree

Information on the Octopus tree

Frog

Elephant

Thompson's Mill

          We went to see an old mill it was not a working mill but it had very good information on how the mill worked in its day. There was a lot of chickens and ducks there they also had turkeys but they were not as friendly as the others were. It was funny when we (Judy and Walter and myself) walked up the animals started running toward us like they wanted attention or something. BUT that was not the case we didn't see the feed machine. So one of the chickens fly / jump up on the fence and waited for us to put money in the machine for food .  As I was trying to get the food out of the machine I guess I was taking too long and she didn't want to wait so she climbed on to my arm and started eating the food out of my hand and from the machine. She was very impatient for sure!!! Well I hope y'all enjoy the pictures..

There she is the greedy one!!!

Outside of the mill

Main House

This was the host giving us the tour and showing how the belt could be fixed if it broke

The first vacuum cleaners

This is an ad for the vacuum clearners

The picture shows the toilet used to run into the water below until they remodeled it .

The person who worked this station walked so much they wore the floor out

This is the original wood

These are sheep in the field as we drove by.

Ducks and wildlife

Not much going on here at EE Wilson Wildlife  Area ,Oregon. I was out and about and saw the geese family, swallows and a Hooded Merganser. I hope you enjoy them.

a Hooded Merganser

a Hooded Merganser

Male swallow

Female swallow

She seems to be asking him when is he bringing the grass to her for the nest?

Here he comes with the grass for the nest

family of geese - 3 goslings

Wood Ducks

Not much to say here we had to move a ring neck pheasant  to a new home because you cant have two males together .Because of it being Spring they will start "fighting" as my kids would say when they were younger. When we moved him I was holding him to keep him claim so we could get the net off him So Walter took a picture of me  holding him.There was a cool looking blue bird by Judy and Walter's place.
 I Also saw a couple of wood ducks so I hope you enjoy.

Tillamock cheese Factory

We went to the Tillamook Cheese factory. Tried all the free cheese I hate that my son wasn't with me cause he LOVES CHEESE!!! It was interesting how they packaged the cheese. They didn't show us how they really made it. Then they let us taste all the cheese they made and we could go thru the line as many times as we wanted to  All FOR FREE!!!

1 lb cheese and they weigh them

conveyor belt  coming around with cheese from the back side

Tillamook packaging

vacuum packaging  machine

larger package size going on to the vacuum machine

finished product going to be put in boxes for shipping

Red Tail Hawk

                I am really enjoying my time here at EE Wilson Wildlife area!!!  I know I have only been here a little over 1 week but today was AWESOME!!! I saw a red tail hawk. I have only seen a Swanson hawk, Osprey and a bald eagle as far as great birds. Also a sunrise from this morning still foggy at 7:45am. Hope you all enjoy these pictures.

Red tail hawk

Red tail hawk in flight

Sunrise this morning 7:45 am