Family Camping at its Best - Australian Bulldog

Huntley Park, Gold Beach, Oregon

Our new neighbors have been moving in the past two days.  It is a family of Grandma and Grandpa, who own a cafe in Gold Beach, their daughter and son-in-law (she works weekends at cafe) and their two or is it three boys, their son (who helped move stuff, but isn’t up here totally yet because he runs things during the week at the cafe) and his two girls…and of course, their dog Hank…more about Hank here in a minute.  Now these are the ones we know about so far…there are more coming because they have already paid for the two sites on the other side of us.  Told the “grandma” that we feel like the peanut butter between two slices of bread.  We offered to move but she insisted that we stay put…until this evening when she saw the wisdom in having all four sites together, so tomorrow we move down two sites.  Since we have to travel to Gold Beach to dump our tanks, it is nothing big on us…and everyone will be for the better.  The family is just adorable.

This is grandma and grandpa’s dog Hank…a very friendly, occasional barking dog.  He gets Skruffy going, but is trying to restrain herself.

Every site has its own fire pit, like the one here that we park next to.  This is “our” fire pit”, so no one is going to use it…hence, we parked near it to get further away from the road.  Well, Hank has his own fire pit too, and guess what he likes to use it for?   No, not as a toilet…I know some of you are thinking that…

    

Hank thinks the fire pit makes for one good dog bed for Hank!  Let’s just hope Hank decides differently after they make their nightly fire because it is that fire pit which has all the wood stacked up around it…and the chairs forming a circle around it.

On the other side of this ‘family gathering’ is a very large class c…the one with  a trailer with the “trike” that I talked about before.  Well this couple, who are Fulltime RVers, have an Australian Bulldog.  The Australian Bulldog is newly developed breed created by two families that were interested in creating an improved version of the English Bulldog that was healthier and possessed increased working abilities. English Bulldogs were crossed with Boxers, Bullmastiffs, mixed-breed dogs, and American Bulldogs.  Looks like an English Bulldog, but the legs are longer, and it does go on walks with them.  (As I write this, another black dog, one I have not seen before, is running through the park, on its own, with no one chasing it…I figure someone will realize their dog has vanished and will come looking for it.  The grandma next door tried calling it, but it ignored her.)

Walked over to the Gazebo, where the wedding was held last Saturday.  Nice little garden around it, and some of the flowers are still in bloom.

  

I have no idea what type of flower this is, but they were the ones which were in more abundance…the other type of flowers were withering away already…but the plants themselves are all very healthy. 

This ‘almost’ wants me to say, “Merry Christmas” to everyone…

I just love how you can frame pictures of the boats going up or down the river with this tree…lucky we are not camped there or that’s all you would see pictures of.

Finally located the nests of two different Osprey pairs.  This one is the most open for taking pictures of…and the mom and dad Osprey were both very active.  They have at least one young one in there…perhaps more than one.  Earlier I was outside without my camera, and low and behold…an Osprey, probably one of these two, flew the river headed towards this nest with a fish in its claws.  GRRRRR.  That is “the” shot I am trying for.

    

But I did get them flying off the nest.  Although they look like they are consecutive shots, they are not…the one on the right was taken about 10 minutes before the one on the left, and from a different angle.  The good thing about moving…I think I will be able to see this nest from our picnic bench!