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Wild Rivers Coast Food Trail

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If you are looking for the best way to experience food on the Southern Oregon Coast, look no further than the Wild Rivers Coast Food Trail. The mission of the Wild Rivers Coast Food Trail is to advertise businesses from farms to craft breweries that produce, source or cook local foods.

It is open for visitor participation year-round and includes a number of establishments along the Southern Oregon Coast broken into different categories. The trail started as just a farm trail from Bandon to Port Orford.

Now, just three years later, the food trail has grown to 40 participating businesses spanning from Reedsport to Brookings.

Following the food trail provides visitors with some of the most rewarding food-related experiences along the wild rivers coast. Seeing the logo in an establishment ensures guests that all the food they are receiving is local, fresh and sustainable. It is an easy way to identify delicious places to stop for a beer, food, or produce.

In addition, South Coast Tours offers guided van tours along the food trail, allowing you to get the most out of your adventure. They can accommodate you and your party to help you experience the best the trail has to offer, as well as give additional insight that only locals can provide.

For more information, go to the WRC food trail website at https://www.wrcfoodtrail.com.

Wild Rivers Coast Food Trail Logo

The Oregon Dunes

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Photo by Susan Dimock

Stretching from Heceta Head in Northern Florence to Cape Arago in Southern Coos Bay, the Oregon sand dunes span 54 miles along the Oregon Coast. In fact, these dunes cover 40,000 acres making it the largest area of any dune system in the West Coast of North America.

What makes these dunes even more impressive is that they are over 100,000 years old. Studies show that individual sand grains originated from the Umpqua River making it the primary source of the Oregon Dunes.

Since 1972, the dune system is known as the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area (ODNRA) and is managed by the USDA Forest Service thanks to Congress.

U.S. Highway 101 is the major coastal highway that runs through almost the entire Pacific Coast line from Northern Washington to Southern California, making it easy to access the dunes.

Nestled within them are many lakes making the Oregon Dunes a popular destination for outdoor adventure. In fact, the most popular activities to do are hiking, camping, and off-highway-vehicle (OHV) riding.

References
https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/oregon_dunes/#.W2IpcC2ZOb8

Jean C Fisheries

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Jean C Fisheries was established in 1950 and is currently run by Kevin Bennett, who bought the Jean C after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ed Chevalier built the boat, named after his wife, and fished out of Washington and Alaska for over 65 years until Kevin bought it.

Kevin has been operating Jean C Fisheries since April 2014. He fishes for ling cod, salmon, and tuna. His start/stop dates, limits, and restrictions are governed by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the federal government. It’s a one-man operation and Kevin will go out to fish for up to five days at a time on the ocean. His boat is equipped to have multiple fishing lines out at a time and accommodates his living needs while he’s gone for multiple days.

Kevin says that “it’s fishing,” so he never knows exactly how many fish he will bring in after a trip. When I met him, he was unloading 96 tuna fish from his boat. He can catch up to 4,000 pounds at a time.

When asked about how he sells his freshly caught fish Kevin says, “I have a limited seller permit that allows dockside sales to the ultimate consumer whole fish sales.” His tuna is either sold from the boat or to a plant; salmon is almost always to the Pacific Sea food plant; ling cod to local fish shops or dockside sales.”