Touring Winchester Bay and Umpqua Coast with John

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[0:00] hello YouTube got a bunch of Random
[0:03] clips for you my day just hanging out
[0:05] with a friend named John he's a
[0:07] volunteer
[0:08] here we just went out to the beach in
[0:10] some different places and it's kind of
[0:12] long um but you want
[0:16] to get a feel
[0:19] for what it's like to just explore and
[0:22] be on the coast and maybe you enjoy this
[0:24] I had a good day when you get to see a
[0:26] double rainbow check that out that is
[0:29] beautiful yeah say hi
[0:32] John hi now I got you on video yeah
[0:36] there you got me now that is a beautiful
[0:37] rainbow for 2 G Men yep exactly look at
[0:40] that storm vultures
[0:43] alling kind of funny sorry Winchester
[0:46] bang yep just that's the village over
[0:48] there
[0:49] okay it's a cool place now we got to go
[0:52] see the
[0:53] beach there's my beautiful Jeep not my
[0:56] Jeep it looked even better than that
[0:59] yeah
[1:01] there that one little peek of sun I mean
[1:03] there's more to the left it's funny how
[1:06] how the so go this way yeah okay just
[1:09] yeah go out back up didn't get the Cino
[1:12] boats
[1:13] man well I mean there's not much here
[1:16] right now but that's that's for that's I
[1:20] don't like I don't see boats like you do
[1:23] so wait a minute we're going to be near
[1:27] Umpqua oh
[1:28] yeah wonder if the light will be
[1:32] on can we go see the lighthouse is it
[1:34] this way yeah yeah we're going to pass
[1:37] the lighthous is on just so you know
[1:39] that's always rotating but in this
[1:40] darker Sky it probably look better
[1:43] there's uh two different views for
[1:46] taking a photograph that you want to do
[1:47] so do the standard and then I'll show
[1:50] you the one that will the um one that um
[1:53] K Bono's broken so I didn't get to see
[1:56] any of them on this one's working okay
[1:59] yeah it's been since March and I didn't
[2:01] get to see you you can see all the
[2:02] duners starting to show up the break a
[2:05] whole bun of them back there I'm
[2:10] leaving at least I know where to come
[2:12] yeah that's just
[2:15] it [ __ ] honey they've had so many boats
[2:19] getting damaged there's so many logs in
[2:20] the river in the bay now I can yeah that
[2:23] makes sense the heavy ones you I don't
[2:26] want to drive over
[2:27] that that's the crabby here that's where
[2:30] you can go out for free and just go out
[2:33] and get crabs you want to walk out on
[2:35] the
[2:37] beer okay right here keep going okay
[2:42] pull over just pass that second Brown
[2:45] sign
[2:50] right windy coold crab do got
[2:54] it crab doc how interesting that's
[2:58] exactly what it's for well people go
[2:59] fishing too but the primary it is built
[3:02] and maintained for crabbing oh they've
[3:05] got Ducks we got to give them a
[3:09] duck I take video of this too I haven't
[3:13] been doing this for a
[3:15] while where are we at Windy
[3:19] Co um okay oh it's recording why does
[3:23] this happen for 3 minutes all right so
[3:26] we're next to a Jeep we're going to give
[3:28] them a ducky we're at Wendy Cove and
[3:31] Winchester
[3:32] Bay I think that it's um behind you yeah
[3:37] we're not far right right over there
[3:38] yeah hanging out
[3:41] um we had to park next to the Jeep cuz
[3:44] that's just how that goes
[3:46] right okay oh he locked my door I asked
[3:49] him to do that but um get back there yep
[3:54] all my all my duckies came from um yep
[3:58] randomly you never know who gives them
[3:59] to you
[4:01] and I have a big old thing up
[4:03] them where are they oh no they might be
[4:07] on the other
[4:09] side always
[4:11] got haven't been doing this for a while
[4:16] right is that the
[4:19] ocean well that's you're looking
[4:21] straight out at the ocean right now
[4:22] that's what that cuz I heard the waves
[4:24] that sound
[4:26] like and the riv looking straight
[4:30] bies oh lot of bies yes let me find a
[4:33] good one a now my pop pop is going to be
[4:36] quiet oh well hang in there
[4:41] YouTube I don't have very many good ones
[4:43] anymore let's see what they got going on
[4:45] in here you said there a
[4:46] firefighter uh no it's free ride design
[4:50] I thought I thought I saw a fire but
[4:52] it's free ride I thought they had
[4:53] duckies but they don't so we'll just
[4:55] give
[4:55] them we'll give them this one actually I
[4:58] think they're having
[5:02] oh okay that's
[5:04] okay still going to give him a du just
[5:07] going to give him a ducking and look
[5:09] there're a
[5:11] um hand them a little ducking here right
[5:14] ducking let's get out of here apparently
[5:16] they're in the vehicle next to us having
[5:19] some fun so
[5:21] whatever we're going out to the crab
[5:24] box I'm
[5:25] ready if you want to see this is the
[5:27] ocean right okay if you look at here
[5:30] that don't look like the
[5:33] ocean open ocean so when we go out on
[5:36] the docks we'll be on okay let's go okay
[5:38] but just so you look here you ask about
[5:40] the river and about the bay see
[5:42] sign orange thing on it yeah look at
[5:45] that line mhm that's the that's current
[5:49] of the river going out see oh my God
[5:52] they're making love to each
[5:53] other okay okay so River meeting ocean
[5:58] that's my favorite good so that shows
[5:59] you how much water is coming down our
[6:01] river right now it is literally flowing
[6:03] and pushing the ocean over this way oh
[6:06] the sun's
[6:08] out this is what they call the bar and
[6:11] you'll hear the the term cross I heard
[6:14] that that's because sometimes RVs hang
[6:17] out on them yeah because what happens is
[6:20] that high tide I mean low tide all right
[6:24] I'm going to pause this for a second cuz
[6:25] there's a person coming we met a very
[6:27] cool local she was so cool she was doing
[6:30] crabbing out here and talking about
[6:32] crabs and different places and all kinds
[6:34] of stuff that I know nothing about it
[6:35] was awesome I told her she was
[6:38] awesome we're walking out on the crab
[6:41] dock here the crab dock Little Beach
[6:45] there that's a horrible Beach usually
[6:47] the water's way up here
[6:49] yeah I'm going to miss this place so
[6:53] much I used to go down here bring my
[6:55] folding chair bring my ice chest
[6:59] and I sit down and I put the Crab Pot in
[7:02] the water and I sit for a couple hours
[7:04] watching The View this is night so this
[7:07] is enco River right Winchester Bay en
[7:10] River
[7:11] yeah river is flowing through I've never
[7:15] seen a river act like an ocean well it's
[7:17] just because that's we don't have
[7:20] natural car here we all go through
[7:23] Rivers this is how an ocean reacts not
[7:26] how a river reacts this we are an is
[7:29] this the ocean or the river hi birie oh
[7:32] my God that was so awesome holy crap oh
[7:36] right
[7:37] there oh my God they don't seem to mind
[7:40] humans hello birdie they're looking for
[7:42] food hoping you got something to feed
[7:44] them here these little buoys that you
[7:47] see that's marking people's C Dots oh
[7:50] really yeah how fascinating you have
[7:54] usually you're supposed to have your
[7:55] name and your phone number on it and
[7:57] then you drop it over and leave it there
[7:59] it's illegal for anyone even to touch
[8:01] them wow they get serious trouble
[8:06] poaching a lot of people don't put their
[8:08] names and their phone numbers on but I'm
[8:10] curious to see how you know I mean how
[8:13] anal I
[8:15] am clear about
[8:17] everything so yeah what they're going to
[8:20] do here they'll put that out probably in
[8:22] the morning and they'll come back
[8:23] tomorrow morning okay and then cuz what
[8:26] happens is as the crabs start going in
[8:28] they can't get out out of that pot yeah
[8:31] and then the mo that are in there oh
[8:33] look all the RVs over there yeah that's
[8:35] that that's where we were the other day
[8:36] isn't it highend Resort okay what I
[8:38] like um it's Winchester Bay
[8:42] Resort but
[8:44] basically um I remember that yeah when
[8:47] the crabs get in there it's on video now
[8:49] they start clicking their little claws
[8:51] while they're eating your bait and that
[8:53] brings the attention of other crabs
[8:55] those I don't know those duckies
[9:00] I'm not listening I'm sorry John I'm
[9:02] just trying to figure out no I'm just
[9:03] trying to figure out what the name of
[9:05] those guys are I think they're the ones
[9:07] that come down from Alaska a little it
[9:09] went under the water I didn't get a
[9:11] picture fast enough to fish that's what
[9:13] he's doing he's fishing oh wow it can
[9:16] really stay under too he'll go down
[9:19] there you might get lucky one of the
[9:20] harbor seals might show up oh I love the
[9:23] seals I want to see a seal I love
[9:27] them there's one right up here
[9:30] to get lucky where not sure I'm looking
[9:33] at that's a log it's either one of the
[9:35] ducks
[9:38] or might be the head of one these birds
[9:40] are just like hello yeah cuz they think
[9:43] you've got food in your pockets hi what
[9:45] do you feed them here's the news oh what
[9:48] do you feed them about anything they can
[9:49] get hold of these scraps let's see how
[9:52] this is all marked up on there that's
[9:54] what you're supposed to do identifies
[9:57] Who You Are
[10:01] thought they
[10:04] were I'm only seen the seals once the
[10:07] first time and I was like what the [ __ ]
[10:09] is that I thought they were little
[10:11] aliens see that's current that's flowing
[10:13] under us right now the
[10:16] river
[10:19] strong what a beautiful day I love storm
[10:22] weather well because it's not pouring
[10:24] with rain yeah we'll get wet if it does
[10:26] it was pretty bad earlier that's
[10:28] beautiful view right there oh look
[10:32] at ooh that's a pretty duck oh my we
[10:37] duck get on the camera almost looks like
[10:40] my cat he had a little my friend's face
[10:43] look at look at the current of like a
[10:44] boat right now it's moving so
[10:47] fast is that a wood duck out there I
[10:50] think that's a wood duck ground I can't
[10:53] tell I'm even wearing contacts but I
[10:55] can't tell yeah I think it is they're
[10:57] the prettiest I love
[10:59] we are over the
[11:06] waterm
[11:09] destroy careful what don't scare me oh
[11:13] my God Scar the [ __ ] out of me dude
[11:15] don't talk like
[11:22] that oh oh my God I watched that thing
[11:24] just pee look how strong that is that
[11:27] duck just peed into the water those are
[11:30] cor black ones out
[11:36] there what right here
[11:39] where I don't see
[11:41] anything right there what are you
[11:43] talking about it's absolutely perfectly
[11:45] still on top of that post he looks like
[11:47] he's part of the post but he's not a
[11:49] post that rock looking thing thing on
[11:51] has great looks like rock to me are you
[11:54] sure that's not a rock get a different
[11:56] angle looks like it's a rock that's a
[11:58] rock man
[12:05] that's a
[12:11] okay oh there's my deep over
[12:14] there the water right now
[12:17] byebye no I wouldn't I was swim back to
[12:21] Shore people always underest to me
[12:30] what happens is the riv is coming in it
[12:33] curves Circle that's why the logs are
[12:35] out
[12:38] there look at that duck over there
[12:41] you're so
[12:42] cool you are so
[12:52] cool just chilling on the water
[12:56] man that strong
[13:00] go faster just
[13:02] moving this is how you realize we're on
[13:04] a river right now see just done it with
[13:06] the
[13:07] ocean is it the ocean or the
[13:11] river have to look on a
[13:15] map oh did you see look at the Ducks
[13:18] what are they
[13:20] doing the water right now is being
[13:22] caused by the flood waters coming down
[13:25] the river oh they're so cute oh my God
[13:28] that's adorable that is adorable orange
[13:31] and
[13:34] yellow yeah I can feel the ocean wind I
[13:37] like
[13:40] that thanks for bring me out here having
[13:44] a good day this man getting all upset
[13:46] cuz I didn't park where he wanted me to
[13:49] we are at um um right here un
[13:55] Lighthouse okay what I wasn't listening
[13:57] to you Uncle River Lighthouse
[14:01] okay make I got my keys I think this is
[14:04] the ocean over here this is way more
[14:09] important
[14:12] o I like
[14:16] that oh that's beautiful I
[14:20] wonder bet you can get down
[14:26] there yeah
[14:30] I wonder if that's part of um Park State
[14:33] park I don't know it's around here it's
[14:35] around here somewhere I was going to be
[14:37] volunteering here but not now I
[14:40] guess that's the
[14:42] ocean let's go look at the um the
[14:46] lighthouse do love the ligh
[14:50] houses this is a cool one it's on
[14:57] too used to be dark to really see what's
[14:59] going on
[15:02] though that is so
[15:06] cool somebody probably used to live in
[15:09] that
[15:12] thing
[15:14] what sun's coming out I can't tell if
[15:17] the light's on or whatever's going on up
[15:19] there see it's slowly turning yeah but I
[15:22] don't see no light we're too close to
[15:25] it the angle that we're going to go look
[15:27] at it down the road you'll get a better
[15:29] view of the
[15:30] light what's down there what's down
[15:33] there with the Dune
[15:34] things the dunes are we allow to go out
[15:37] there what's that way out there that
[15:38] little triangle that's where we were
[15:41] that's the beach we were on that's where
[15:43] those are oysters that live out there
[15:46] you mean the other day oh yeah I
[15:48] recognize that okay
[15:52] yeah what are you doing John taking
[15:55] different angle
[15:57] shots why
[15:59] because I like
[16:01] arital oh my God you're so boring let's
[16:06] go
[16:09] boring oh my God that is a gay man right
[16:13] there let me tell you something I'm not
[16:16] your typical gay man cuz I don't give a
[16:18] [ __ ] about this
[16:20] stuff let's go find some
[16:23] nature why are we walking out here
[16:30] oh this just to look at the Lighthouse
[16:31] from a different
[16:35] angle oh I guess that's
[16:43] pretty
[16:46] oh it's got to come out here at
[16:56] dark I have the red plate they still
[16:59] pretty it rotates and then it has a
[17:02] strob yeah and they have different
[17:03] patterns so that the boats know which
[17:04] one they're
[17:06] at I've discussed all this with
[17:09] AI oh look at that government
[17:13] property that was a beautiful I really
[17:16] wanted to be a Duma where I was supposed
[17:18] to be in April and then my boss one of
[17:21] the coolest Rangers I've ever met in my
[17:22] life she needed to move me to tugman and
[17:26] then then they kicked me out of the
[17:27] program so
[17:29] yeah but we're still here we're here as
[17:32] visitors beautiful
[17:36] place you got just love the organ Coes
[17:38] it's
[17:43] amazing say hi John John's a volunteer
[17:47] videoing now you just knocked my
[17:49] video he was so dramatic when I first
[17:52] started volunteering he didn't like me
[17:53] because he thought I was um
[17:57] too too mean right right so I befriended
[18:00] the guy now we're really good friends
[18:03] usually how that
[18:10] goes yeah I'm only here a couple more
[18:12] days I haven't actually talked about it
[18:13] yet I'll do that in another video cuz
[18:14] nobody's going to be watching the end of
[18:16] this one I'm just going to compile a
[18:18] bunch of stuff together um but yeah I'm
[18:20] going to head south to Nevada I'll be on
[18:23] the coast for a little
[18:25] while um as I head south and then I'm
[18:27] going to go into Nevada and then I'll
[18:29] probably head towards um Kentucky from
[18:32] there and I'll come back you know late
[18:35] like in Autumn or
[18:39] something
[18:42] didn't they
[18:47] live live they didn't live in the
[18:52] thing and they didn't live in
[18:55] it oh okay well some of them okay yeah
[18:58] I've seen them yeah I think about that a
[19:01] lot
[19:04] actually yeah I imagine Sailors coming
[19:07] by and having sex with them that's what
[19:09] I always think about I imagine a past
[19:12] life I was one of them back then there
[19:14] was nothing else up here these trees
[19:15] weren't here they would have kept the
[19:17] trees away to make a clear I mean the
[19:20] one at Kate Blanco that guy would have
[19:21] been so like out there all by himself
[19:24] and sailors would just come on enough
[19:26] and give him a good time yep that's yeah
[19:30] yeah let's just end it there so let's
[19:32] end it with the sign beautiful
[19:35] sign so John said let's go to the beach
[19:38] and that's what we're doing South Tedy
[19:40] County
[19:41] Park nice place we were here the other
[19:44] day permit permit for what for going
[19:47] Offroad oh no no no okay not till I fix
[19:49] my Jeep yeah won got to wait till I fix
[19:52] my Jeep um my fourth gear I just I feel
[19:56] bad
[19:58] so no not yet all this is swamp is
[20:02] [Music]
[20:04] swamped believe it's all
[20:07] water we can park just up here this time
[20:09] we don't have to go down the other end
[20:11] if
[20:11] you we're going down to the ocean right
[20:14] yeah so either end here or there all
[20:16] right oh I okay I know where we are this
[20:18] is a smaller parking lot than I was
[20:20] thinking but yeah we'll just go down
[20:23] yeah we'll just go there you're right
[20:24] this a good
[20:26] spot that way you see a different way
[20:28] down down to the beach
[20:33] yeah there are tons of duners all around
[20:36] at the County RV parks and stuff what's
[20:38] that one called um Half Moon Campground
[20:41] Half Moon Bay yeah Half Moon Bay and I
[20:44] definitely want to spend some time there
[20:46] the triangle Road I've been there before
[20:48] I drove my Jeep down there by myself
[20:49] once in January and that was
[20:53] fun um and what we can do is after here
[20:55] we'll go down to far you video some of
[20:57] them up on the
[20:59] oh that would
[21:03] be yes we can they're all so hot duners
[21:08] are hot as
[21:09] [ __ ]
[21:20] so stuff like that you don't know what
[21:23] you're talking about that's beautiful
[21:26] criticizing my taking shots cuz it's so
[21:29] it's so gay stereotypical no it isn't
[21:31] yes it
[21:32] is there's a lot of straight photo arst
[21:36] well okay but still you know it's a
[21:38] stereotype those yellow things right
[21:40] there are what are killing me by the way
[21:42] everyone yep um those yellow flowers are
[21:45] the cause of my sinus
[21:48] issues oh hold on human coming human
[21:51] detected I used to say okay we're back
[21:53] that Ocean looks
[21:55] amazing oh you know what I've walked out
[21:57] on that jetting can we go to the jny
[22:00] please that one you can walk on no you
[22:02] can't you can up to a certain point well
[22:04] you can well I'm not going to it's a
[22:06] road it's a road I swear to God have you
[22:09] not been out there no it's I promise we
[22:11] won't go like it's not rocks I promise I
[22:14] promise I went out there and processed
[22:17] um some unrequited love one
[22:20] day oh
[22:23] man yay it's hard to believe all these I
[22:26] love this place I didn't know this is
[22:27] where we were monster log that came down
[22:30] the
[22:31] river yeah that's pretty amazing
[22:33] actually walking further
[22:36] Downs okay this poor man has a leg race
[22:39] thing well he's not wearing it but so
[22:42] I'm putting him through some effort here
[22:44] but he'll be all right he'll survive
[22:46] right John survive okay you can walk out
[22:49] there I've done it it's there's a spot
[22:51] where it turns into rocks and you can't
[22:53] anymore but um a good part of it is not
[22:56] like that
[23:02] I love the ocean I'm am going to miss
[23:04] the ocean so
[23:06] much so
[23:12] much but I need to go for a
[23:15] while just feels like I just feels like
[23:19] so strange not to see any circles
[23:21] here the
[23:23] L that is quite a be the ocean goes on
[23:26] forever
[23:33] you
[23:35] okay
[23:38] okay
[23:48] beautiful
[23:55] yeah I like seeing people's footprints I
[23:58] don't know why but it's always so cool
[24:01] to
[24:05] me oh that ocean is
[24:09] amazing I don't know how I can be parted
[24:11] from it that's going to be
[24:16] hard it does something to
[24:23] me yeah
[24:29] on the other side of it's the
[24:31] river is
[24:33] triang there's a river over there yes
[24:37] there
[24:38] is what are you talking about John you
[24:42] saw from up on the hill Oh but still the
[24:45] river I'm just saying I've been out here
[24:46] there's a river over there on the other
[24:49] side of
[24:53] this people always trying to contct me
[24:55] you know like [ __ ] shut up
[25:00] okay let's go see the
[25:12] river oh those are some big waves down
[25:16] there oh that's
[25:18] awesome we can't get that far I don't
[25:21] think
[25:36] it's pretty neat you're about to see
[25:39] it oh this is probably hard for John I'm
[25:42] sorry John I was wrong it was easy for
[25:46] me and I didn't think about okay it's
[25:48] that really a
[25:49] path my
[25:51] bad I guess we'll be over
[25:54] here I don't
[25:56] what oh it's that one it's got to be
[25:59] that one oh yeah not on this be
[26:03] oh it's got to be that one I walked out
[26:05] out
[26:07] here to this to the beach over there
[26:10] over here oh yeah right there yeah cuz I
[26:12] remember the whale watching
[26:14] station it's that one okay the river's
[26:18] over there okay that's what all saying
[26:21] what they call my God I was actually
[26:23] corrected like correctly
[26:25] because I was wrong all over the world
[26:29] so what is the whole point of these
[26:30] rocks here those are oysters they oyers
[26:33] they're what it's a harvest of
[26:36] oysters there baskets underneath each
[26:39] one of those floats they're floating
[26:42] Yep this is
[26:44] built grow oyers you know what I think
[26:48] it's too over where I
[26:51] walked no it's going to be this one over
[26:53] here doesn't look right to me this one
[26:56] there nothing on the other side of that
[26:58] just sworn there's your
[27:00] Tower yeah there's the lighthouse over
[27:08] there there's the red look just the red
[27:10] light
[27:13] a okay we'll wait for the red
[27:17] light to see it that
[27:20] dark light's not very visible
[27:30] want to walk up one those one of these
[27:34] days you know what yeah I think it was
[27:37] this one oh it is cuz that one way over
[27:39] there is on the other side of the river
[27:41] oh okay yeah yeah yeah okay yeah it's on
[27:43] both sides of the river that's what it
[27:45] was I walked out there yeah okay I just
[27:48] thought I was somewhere else that's
[27:50] all correcting me and stuff was just F I
[27:53] guess you were right tomiz
[28:02] need to shave my hair but I'm afraid
[28:03] that I'm going to catch my earrings yeah
[28:06] that would be bad I've done that before
[28:08] that's why my hairs get
[28:17] mild I love this ocean it's already
[28:20] going
[28:22] by snuck out for a second to me that's
[28:24] ABS just felt the Raindrop y it's a bit
[28:28] dark right
[28:32] there this o she is
[28:43] amazing God John I'm going to miss the
[28:45] hell out of
[28:47] this I need as much video as possible
[28:49] because I'm going to [ __ ] miss the
[28:50] hell out of it near the don't think I
[28:54] could ever live more than 3 hours the
[28:58] this is
[29:00] incredible got the
[29:02] birdie I don't know if I can get it in
[29:04] the shot or not there you
[29:09] are oh those are some dark
[29:14] clouds you can handle the cold those
[29:17] clouds should be clear oh look at the
[29:18] rain right there straight out that's
[29:21] rain oh yeah pretty very
[29:25] pretty very
[29:29] the clouds if you look up at the sky
[29:31] they're moving fast yeah son hang in
[29:34] there a few more
[29:37] minutes oh look at the sky behind let's
[29:40] go out to the
[29:46] beach no
[29:50] worries I'll be his age one day he's 20
[29:53] years older than me but that man still
[29:56] walks he still comes out here still does
[29:58] all the things that I don't respect the
[30:00] hell out of this
[30:02] man here's
[30:13] the oh it's so
[30:21] amazing so amazing
[30:39] man I don't know how I could ever leave
[30:48] this I'm so tempted to go walk into down
[30:51] the beach I know not to
[30:53] though I'll be way over there leave that
[30:57] man behind
[30:59] walking down that beach for
[31:05] miles oh it's so
[31:08] awesome so
[31:15] incredible oh dear lord here does with
[31:17] all the beach coming
[31:22] [ __ ] dead that was a jellyfish that's so
[31:26] sad type of jellyfish
[31:29] I don't want to look at
[31:37] that there's still far away way down
[31:42] there oh man I love this
[31:47] place I got to go over here man leaving
[31:50] you
[32:04] so
[32:08] beautiful I love this
[32:11] ocean how do oh I knew you're
[32:22] coming okay
[32:28] that was a little faster than I was
[32:35] anticipating so
[32:49] amazing oh man
[32:58] I cannot paint this [ __ ]
[33:01] oan oh my God I love this
[33:05] ocean okay I turned
[33:07] around oh my don't okay time to go time
[33:12] to go thank you
[33:17] ocean
[33:19] hey only walk so
[33:22] fast man it's really coming up here
[33:28] my favorite thing to do my
[33:33] sign hope there's nothing on
[33:39] camera that was not a sneaker
[33:42] wave that's
[33:51] itne they're not dangerous at all then
[34:02] I don't think that was a
[34:05] sneak
[34:06] maybe check these
[34:11] P I know they get picked up on the
[34:13] camera very
[34:18] well oh man this is my favorite place
[34:21] now oh this place is awesome
[34:30] and that man
[34:34] he it's got a fierce
[34:56] spirit getting pretty late see what time
[34:59] it
[35:00] is so not going down seem to go down
[35:04] with the
[35:05] camera's John what time is it wait I
[35:07] have a
[35:09] watch what are you doing what is
[35:14] that I'm try to find out the time
[35:18] D 6:30 just through this at me whatever
[35:22] this
[35:23] is f what fish
[35:36] fishing oh man I'm having a great time
[35:39] right now
[35:51] [Music]
[36:03] nothing compares to the
[36:05] ocean
[36:07] nothing
[36:09] what I'm recording
[36:13] man there's some Dunes over there and
[36:16] then there's some Dunes up there that's
[36:18] pretty
[36:19] neat pretty
[36:21] cool got some Dunes over
[36:24] here got some sea Frost
[36:33] this so is
[36:37] awesome so [ __ ]
[36:41] cool kind of love
[37:11] taking
[37:17] pictures I miss this place so much but I
[37:20] will be
[37:24] back up the Sun
[37:28] right
[37:29] there
[37:36] beautiful so
[37:40] beautiful I could even stare at it it's
[37:42] not really hurt my eyes that's
[37:48] amazing so
[37:50] cool this is a beautiful
[37:54] atmosphere atmosphere is awesome yes
[38:00] there
[38:02] is of
[38:04] Life the
[38:06] O together they give
[38:23] life oh man
[38:32] all right let's head back
[38:35] time take goodbye to the
[38:38] YouTubers bye
Photos · Mar 22, 2025
Mar 22, 2025
3:44
Sitting on the RV Roof at Dusk
Mar 23, 2025
Photos · Mar 23, 2025
Mar 23, 2025
Photos · Mar 24, 2025
Mar 24, 2025
16:47
Documenting Removal Without Process at Honeyman
Mar 24, 2025
30:56
Program Manager Confirms Dismissal Before Review Call
Mar 25, 2025
Photos · Mar 25, 2025
Mar 25, 2025
Photos · Mar 25, 2025
Mar 25, 2025
5:32
Packing Out Under Program Review Decision
Mar 25, 2025
Preserving the Original Honeyman Narrative Account
Mar 26, 2025
2:13
Tracing Waves at the New Park
Mar 26, 2025
Photos · Mar 26, 2025
Mar 26, 2025
4:09
Documenting OPRD Volunteer Dismissal and Escalation Plan
Mar 26, 2025
7:27
Filming Eel Lake While Processing OPRD Detachment
Mar 27, 2025
6:43
Naming the Dismissal Timing, Routing East to Kentucky
Mar 27, 2025
6:20
Reading OPRD Letter Into the Public Record
Mar 28, 2025
Photos · Mar 28, 2025
Mar 28, 2025
38:45
Touring Winchester Bay and Umpqua Coast with John
Mar 29, 2025
10:27
Continuing North After Volunteer Program Dismissal
Mar 29, 2025
9:32
Recording a Trail Walk After Two Non-Encounters
Mar 30, 2025
15:04
Laundry Run to Reedsport, Teaching Through Witness
Mar 30, 2025
Photos · Mar 31, 2025
Mar 31, 2025
5:00
Moving from Tugman to Beverly Beach in Rain
Mar 31, 2025
Photos · Apr 1, 2025
Apr 1, 2025
Photos · Apr 1, 2025
Apr 1, 2025
50:54
Touring a New Campground and Walking the Beach with John
Apr 2, 2025
1:26
Declaring Openness as Structural Strength
Apr 2, 2025
8:29
Documenting Relocation Logistics and Signal Flares
Apr 2, 2025
4:49
Requesting Support Before Off-Grid Transition
Apr 3, 2025
4:26
Returning to Florence for Off-Grid Iteration
Apr 3, 2025
13:00
Cataloging Systems Before Disconnecting RV Power
Apr 3, 2025
11:13
Announcing Off-Grid Transition and Support Structure
Apr 3, 2025
2:26
Announcing Off-Grid Sovereignty and Support Channels
Apr 3, 2025
8:57
Cutting Hair at Camp With Don
Apr 4, 2025
6:02
Addressing Audience Directly on Reciprocity
Apr 4, 2025
13:36
Moving Off Grid on Departure Morning
Apr 4, 2025
Photos · Apr 4, 2025
Apr 4, 2025
24:00
Departing Beverly Beach for Off-Grid Campground
Apr 4, 2025
29:59
Relocating to Off-Grid Site at Lagoon Campground
Apr 4, 2025
Photos · Apr 5, 2025
Apr 5, 2025
15:33
Switching to Portrait Mode, Mapping Off-Grid Systems
Apr 5, 2025
PUBLIC
March 29, 2025 rswfire PUBLISHED
Temp 0.30
Density 0.40
Energetic Quality
expansive, weather-charged
Journey Phase
transitional — documenting a place before departure
Directional Vector
toward departure while archiving the coast
Narrative

The double rainbow came first. rswfire had the camera running before he had a plan for the day, greeting YouTube with the honest framing — a bunch of random clips, a day with a friend, kind of long — and then the sky opened into an arc over Winchester Bay and he turned the lens toward it and called it beautiful. John was beside him, a fellow Forest Service volunteer twenty years his senior, and rswfire pulled him into the frame: say hi John. Two G-men under a rainbow, storm clouds stacking behind it, vultures circling. The village sat across the water. The Jeep sat in the parking lot looking better than it looked on camera. They went to see the beach.

At Windy Cove they parked next to another Jeep because that is simply how that goes, and rswfire went into the back for a rubber duck. He hadn't done the ducking in a while — the collection had thinned, the good ones were gone, and the ones left were on the other side of the vehicle or nowhere at all. He found one anyway. The Jeep turned out to belong to people who were occupied inside it, and he handed off the duck and walked away without ceremony. Then he took John out toward the crab dock, the free one, the one built and maintained for exactly this, and on the way he stopped him at the water and pointed.

There was a line on the surface. An orange marker, a seam, and beyond it the whole Umpqua at flood stage pushing out and shoving the ocean sideways. River meeting ocean, that's my favorite. John said they were making love to each other. It was the structural fact of the entire day: two systems in contact, the boundary visible, one of them stronger right now than it had any usual right to be. John kept asking a version of the same question at every stop — is this the ocean or the river — and rswfire kept answering it, patiently, from the inside of a knowledge he had built by sitting here. He explained the bar. He explained low tide. He explained the little buoys bobbing over the pots, how you write your name and your number on them, how it identifies who you are, how touching another person's is illegal and people get serious trouble for poaching. He explained how the crabs click their claws while they eat the bait and how that clicking brings the other crabs in. Ducks came right up to them looking for food. A cormorant fished and stayed under longer than seemed possible. rswfire watched the current run under the dock and said the thing he would say again all afternoon: I'm going to miss this place so much. He used to come down here with a folding chair and an ice chest, drop a pot, and sit for hours watching this exact view.

They drove on to the Umpqua River Lighthouse. The light was on, slowly turning, hard to read from directly beneath it — John promised a better angle down the road, and then wandered off to shoot it from various positions, which rswfire narrated with open scorn (oh my God that is a gay man right there — let me tell you something, I'm not your typical gay man) before following him out anyway and admitting the angle was pretty. He knew the red plate, the strobe, the fact that each lighthouse runs its own pattern so boats know which one they're looking at; he'd discussed all of it with AI. He said, plainly, that he was supposed to be volunteering here in April, that one of the coolest Rangers he'd ever met had needed to move him to Tugman, and that then they kicked him out of the program. So yeah. But we're still here. We're here as visitors. Beautiful place. The route had changed; the claim on the terrain had not. He looked at the keeper's quarters and thought about the men who worked these lights before the trees came back, alone out at Cape Blanco with nothing else up here, sailors coming ashore. He said he imagined a past life as one of them. Then: let's just end it there. Let's end it with the sign.

John said let's go to the beach, so they went to the beach — South Jetty, Douglas County Park. rswfire declined the off-road permit; fourth gear was out and the Jeep would wait until he fixed it. The swamp beside the road was all water. He talked about the duners already showing up in the county lots, about Half Moon Bay, about the January he drove the triangle road alone, about how hot duners are. He pointed out the yellow flowers that wreck his sinuses. He paused the recording for a passing human, twice, the way he does. And he tracked John the whole way down — the leg brace not worn, the effort being asked of a man twenty years older, the path that turned out to be harder than rswfire had thought when he chose it. I was wrong, it was easy for me and I didn't think about it. My bad. Later, when John corrected him about which beach access he'd walked before, he took the correction out loud on camera and said so twice: I was actually corrected, correctly, because I was wrong.

Then the ocean. Big waves down the far end. Oyster floats offshore with baskets hanging underneath. Footprints in the sand that he liked for reasons he couldn't name. A jellyfish stranded and dying that he didn't want to look at. Rain visible offshore as a solid gray column, dark clouds moving fast overhead, a raindrop landing on him, one snuck-out patch of sun. He walked toward the water and the water came up faster than he anticipated and he turned and said time to go, time to go, thank you ocean and got clear. He drew his sign in the sand — his favorite thing to do — and hoped the camera caught it, and doubted it would. He said he didn't know how he could be parted from it. He said it does something to him. He said he could never live more than three hours from it. He said he needed as much video as possible because he was going to miss the hell out of it.

That was the architecture of the whole day, stated outright: he was recording because he was leaving. A couple more days on this coast, then south along it for a while, then Nevada, then probably Kentucky, then back in the autumn. He hadn't talked about it on the channel yet and said he'd do that in another video, because nobody would be watching the end of this one anyway. He said it into a camera pointed at an ocean he had just thanked, standing beside a man who had disliked him on arrival and whom he had befriended on purpose, in weather he loved because it was storming and not yet pouring. The sun went low. He looked for the time and John threw a watch at him. Six-thirty. Dunes over there, dunes up there, sea froth, a beautiful atmosphere — nothing compares to the ocean, nothing. Then: all right, let's head back. Goodbye to the YouTubers. Bye.

Tags

coastal exploration Winchester Bay crabbing volunteer relationships travel plans Umpqua Lighthouse video documentation

Summary

rswfire records a compiled day of video with John, a fellow volunteer, moving through several sites around Winchester Bay and the Umpqua area on the Oregon Coast. The footage opens on a double rainbow over storm weather and continues through Salmon Harbor, the crab dock at Windy Cove, Umpqua River Lighthouse, and South Jetty County Park.

At the crab dock he explains local mechanics to John: the marked buoys identifying crab pot owners, the legal prohibition on touching them, how crabs clicking on bait draw more crabs, and the visible line where the river current meets the ocean, which he attributes to flood water coming down the river. Log damage to boats, oyster float harvests, and the bar crossing are also noted. He continues his practice of handing out rubber duckies to other Jeep owners in the lot.

At the lighthouse he states he was scheduled to volunteer at Umpqua in April, that his Ranger moved him to Tugman, and that he was then removed from the program; he notes he is present now as a visitor.

He announces departure in a few days — south along the coast, then Nevada, then likely Kentucky, with return around autumn. He states he is recording as much video as possible because he will miss the ocean, and describes his Jeep's fourth gear as needing repair before off-road use.

Environment

A day of driving and walking the Oregon Coast near Winchester Bay and the Umpqua River, recorded on handheld camera across multiple stops. Locations include Windy Cove, the free public crab dock on the bay, Umpqua River Lighthouse, and South Jetty / Douglas County Park beach access.

Weather is storm-adjacent — double rainbow, fast-moving dark clouds, visible rain offshore, intermittent sun, raindrops, ocean wind. Flood-stage river current is pushing visibly out across the bar. rswfire is with John, a fellow Forest Service volunteer roughly twenty years his senior, filming for YouTube in the final days before departing the coast.

Substrate

The signal holds an archival stance: rswfire is deliberately capturing a landscape and a friendship at the point of leaving them, stating explicitly that the footage exists because he will miss the place. The architecture is one of sovereign mobility — the OPRD removal is named flatly as an event that redirected a route, not as a wound, and he re-enters the same terrain as a visitor with the same claim to it. River meeting ocean is the structural anchor of the day: two systems in contact, one pushing through the other, boundary visible on the surface.

Actions

Performed

  • •filming a compiled multi-stop day for YouTube
  • •recording a double rainbow
  • •narrating the difference between bay, river, and open ocean
  • •placing a rubber duck on a stranger's Jeep at Windy Cove
  • •walking the crab dock and filming birds, buoys, and current
  • •talking with a local crabber about crabbing
  • •photographing Umpqua River Lighthouse and its red light
  • •identifying oyster harvest floats offshore
  • •walking the beach at Douglas County Park
  • •filming waves, dark clouds, offshore rain, and dunes
  • •pacing walks to John's leg brace limitation
  • •accepting John's correction about jetty location
  • •stating departure plans on camera

Referenced

  • •was slated to volunteer at Umpqua Lighthouse in April
  • •was reassigned to Tugman by his ranger
  • •was removed from the volunteer program
  • •sat at the crab dock with folding chair, ice chest, and crab pot
  • •drove Jeep alone down Triangle Road in January
  • •walked out on the south jetty to process unrequited love
  • •befriended John after initial friction
  • •collected rubber ducks given to him randomly
  • •saw harbor seals once and mistook them for aliens
  • •discussed lighthouse light patterns with AI
  • •caught earrings while shaving his head

Planned

  • •leave the coast in a couple of days
  • •head south along the coast, then to Nevada
  • •continue toward Kentucky
  • •return in autumn
  • •record a separate video explaining the departure
  • •fix the Jeep's fourth gear before off-road permits
  • •spend time at Half Moon Bay
  • •film duners later in the trip
  • •return to walk the jetty and see the lighthouse after dark

Entities

beings
John — Fellow Forest Service volunteer, ~20 years older, wears a leg brace; companion and local knowledge source for the day
places
Winchester Bay — Village and bay where the crab dock and Windy Cove stops occur
Umpqua River — River at flood stage pushing out through the bay into the ocean; structural centerpiece of the day
Windy Cove — Parking and dock area where the rubber duck is placed on a Jeep
Umpqua River Lighthouse — Rotating red-plate lighthouse; site rswfire was originally slated to volunteer at in April
Douglas County Park / South Jetty beach — Beach access and jetty where the day's final walk occurs
Cape Blanco — Referenced lighthouse used to imagine isolated keeper life
Tugman — State park he was reassigned to before removal from the program
Half Moon Bay — County campground he intends to spend time at
Triangle Road — Dune route he drove solo in his Jeep in January
Nevada — First major destination in the stated southbound route
Kentucky — Later destination in the stated route before an autumn return
systems
Volunteer program — Institution that reassigned and then removed him; named without elaboration
Crab dock — Free public infrastructure built and maintained for crabbing; site of prior routine
Crab pot buoy marking — Name-and-number identification protocol; legal ownership marker discussed as fascinating and enforceable
Oyster harvest floats — Offshore baskets identified as cultivation infrastructure, not natural rock
The Jeep — His vehicle, fourth gear broken, limiting off-road access
AI — Named as the source he used to learn lighthouse light-pattern signaling
concepts
Rubber ducks — Jeep-culture gifting practice he participates in; ducks acquired randomly from others
The bar — River-ocean crossing point named and explained as a navigational feature
media
YouTube — Publication destination; addressed directly throughout

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

ocean
river
confluence
double rainbow
lighthouse
storm
jetty
threshold
current
buoy
footprints
dunes
wind

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

transitional (filming a place in the final days before leaving it)
sovereign (returns to the same terrain as a visitor with unchanged claim to it; institutional removal named as route change)
embedded (dense working knowledge of tides, current, crab gear, dune access, local geography)
archival (explicitly recording to hold the place after departure)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

somatic (tracks ocean wind, cold, raindrops, sinus response to yellow flowers, pacing to John's leg limitation)
relational (sustained companionship with John, including friction history, correction, and stated respect)
ecological (identifies ducks, cormorants, jellyfish, seals, oyster beds, river flood dynamics)
infrastructural (crab dock, buoy marking law, oyster floats, lighthouse signaling patterns, Jeep drivetrain)
institutional (volunteer program assignment, reassignment, removal — stated flatly)
archival (deliberate compiled recording for later reference and publication)
erotic/embodied (duner attraction, lighthouse-keeper imagining, earrings and shaved head, self-positioning against gay stereotype)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

ocean / I'm going to miss this
river meeting ocean / current / the bar
is this the ocean or the river
crab dock / buoys / identifies who you are
I'm only here a couple more days
kicked me out of the program / we're here as visitors
so beautiful / so amazing / nothing compares
Narrative

The double rainbow came first. rswfire had the camera running before he had a plan for the day, greeting YouTube with the honest framing — a bunch of random clips, a day with a friend, kind of long — and then the sky opened into an arc over Winchester Bay and he turned the lens toward it and called it beautiful. John was beside him, a fellow Forest Service volunteer twenty years his senior, and rswfire pulled him into the frame: say hi John. Two G-men under a rainbow, storm clouds stacking behind it, vultures circling. The village sat across the water. The Jeep sat in the parking lot looking better than it looked on camera. They went to see the beach.

At Windy Cove they parked next to another Jeep because that is simply how that goes, and rswfire went into the back for a rubber duck. He hadn't done the ducking in a while — the collection had thinned, the good ones were gone, and the ones left were on the other side of the vehicle or nowhere at all. He found one anyway. The Jeep turned out to belong to people who were occupied inside it, and he handed off the duck and walked away without ceremony. Then he took John out toward the crab dock, the free one, the one built and maintained for exactly this, and on the way he stopped him at the water and pointed.

There was a line on the surface. An orange marker, a seam, and beyond it the whole Umpqua at flood stage pushing out and shoving the ocean sideways. River meeting ocean, that's my favorite. John said they were making love to each other. It was the structural fact of the entire day: two systems in contact, the boundary visible, one of them stronger right now than it had any usual right to be. John kept asking a version of the same question at every stop — is this the ocean or the river — and rswfire kept answering it, patiently, from the inside of a knowledge he had built by sitting here. He explained the bar. He explained low tide. He explained the little buoys bobbing over the pots, how you write your name and your number on them, how it identifies who you are, how touching another person's is illegal and people get serious trouble for poaching. He explained how the crabs click their claws while they eat the bait and how that clicking brings the other crabs in. Ducks came right up to them looking for food. A cormorant fished and stayed under longer than seemed possible. rswfire watched the current run under the dock and said the thing he would say again all afternoon: I'm going to miss this place so much. He used to come down here with a folding chair and an ice chest, drop a pot, and sit for hours watching this exact view.

They drove on to the Umpqua River Lighthouse. The light was on, slowly turning, hard to read from directly beneath it — John promised a better angle down the road, and then wandered off to shoot it from various positions, which rswfire narrated with open scorn (oh my God that is a gay man right there — let me tell you something, I'm not your typical gay man) before following him out anyway and admitting the angle was pretty. He knew the red plate, the strobe, the fact that each lighthouse runs its own pattern so boats know which one they're looking at; he'd discussed all of it with AI. He said, plainly, that he was supposed to be volunteering here in April, that one of the coolest Rangers he'd ever met had needed to move him to Tugman, and that then they kicked him out of the program. So yeah. But we're still here. We're here as visitors. Beautiful place. The route had changed; the claim on the terrain had not. He looked at the keeper's quarters and thought about the men who worked these lights before the trees came back, alone out at Cape Blanco with nothing else up here, sailors coming ashore. He said he imagined a past life as one of them. Then: let's just end it there. Let's end it with the sign.

John said let's go to the beach, so they went to the beach — South Jetty, Douglas County Park. rswfire declined the off-road permit; fourth gear was out and the Jeep would wait until he fixed it. The swamp beside the road was all water. He talked about the duners already showing up in the county lots, about Half Moon Bay, about the January he drove the triangle road alone, about how hot duners are. He pointed out the yellow flowers that wreck his sinuses. He paused the recording for a passing human, twice, the way he does. And he tracked John the whole way down — the leg brace not worn, the effort being asked of a man twenty years older, the path that turned out to be harder than rswfire had thought when he chose it. I was wrong, it was easy for me and I didn't think about it. My bad. Later, when John corrected him about which beach access he'd walked before, he took the correction out loud on camera and said so twice: I was actually corrected, correctly, because I was wrong.

Then the ocean. Big waves down the far end. Oyster floats offshore with baskets hanging underneath. Footprints in the sand that he liked for reasons he couldn't name. A jellyfish stranded and dying that he didn't want to look at. Rain visible offshore as a solid gray column, dark clouds moving fast overhead, a raindrop landing on him, one snuck-out patch of sun. He walked toward the water and the water came up faster than he anticipated and he turned and said time to go, time to go, thank you ocean and got clear. He drew his sign in the sand — his favorite thing to do — and hoped the camera caught it, and doubted it would. He said he didn't know how he could be parted from it. He said it does something to him. He said he could never live more than three hours from it. He said he needed as much video as possible because he was going to miss the hell out of it.

That was the architecture of the whole day, stated outright: he was recording because he was leaving. A couple more days on this coast, then south along it for a while, then Nevada, then probably Kentucky, then back in the autumn. He hadn't talked about it on the channel yet and said he'd do that in another video, because nobody would be watching the end of this one anyway. He said it into a camera pointed at an ocean he had just thanked, standing beside a man who had disliked him on arrival and whom he had befriended on purpose, in weather he loved because it was storming and not yet pouring. The sun went low. He looked for the time and John threw a watch at him. Six-thirty. Dunes over there, dunes up there, sea froth, a beautiful atmosphere — nothing compares to the ocean, nothing. Then: all right, let's head back. Goodbye to the YouTubers. Bye.

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