Yaquina Bay Lighthouse

View looking south from Yaquina Bay Lighthouse

This month Rich and I are volunteering at the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse in Newport. For two days we work as lighthouse keepers greeting visitors. The two other days we work in "the dungeon", downstairs in the basement in the gift shop. The basement is very cold. The lighthouse is on the national registry as an historic building. There is heat, but not much in the basement. I layer, layer, layer and stay warm. On sunny days the view is gorgeous. On a grey day.....you can't see much through the fog. We love the old building that was built in 1871. The Lincoln County Historical Society has furnished the living quarters with period pieces.