Other than the drone of the ocean, it is a silent place, cut off from the already cut off town of Port Orford, in the cut off SW corner of the state, and best not advertised or bragged about lest it attract zombies and Orks from the big city, week-enders, or motor cycle gangs, and cult leaders looking for a home base. (some secrets are ment to be hidden).
No street lights, pavement, or need for speed bumps, it is a simple stand-alone place (on the grid with utilities), with a gazillion stars, great sunrises, and only one address, 42365 for all 12 sites... it's Paradise... it is "home".
Since moving in here two months ago, I have been doing a weekly (Personal) Monday morning moving-in blog about our experience, that move-in phase is now over, but I am continuing the weekly ritual as a new "community" blog, for us Dena Lane dwellers, we are our own remote neighborhood watch, self help, and share colony, and since we are all intending to be "long term" here, perhaps we should be at least armed with each others contact information for emergencies, and do some "communicating" as neighbors.
So, welcome aboard the blog (or not), if you have comments, or information to share, something that needs saying, for the Monday postings you can contact us over at space 3 by texting 541-366-8001 or emailing to whazammo@gmail.com, we are Peter & an'ya. (sorry, we don't do phones).
or, just visit denalane.blogspot.com anytime.
For this first edition ,winter start-up post, there is little ado ... other than recouping (in your own individual fashion) from the election, watching the Madeira plants dry up and the hungry humming birds still visiting six times a day, plus, losing our long-time Park host Nancy from space 5 into a brick and mortar cabin without wheels somewhere further inland... rumor is a motor home is taking over her space in a few days... and it may rain.
All-in-all a pretty quiet week, the king tides are back ! Thanksgiving is coming (again), and it might even rain.<s> .. let's see what the "next" week conjures up, stop back & read about it here !
Just for fill, some winter thoughts.......Cape Blanco, the 48th parallel, the Davidson Current = ship wreck seas, Northern Tuna, and blustery (winter) weather.
Living "on" the Pacific Ocean coast between the Aleutians to Baja means you experience and are aware of... weather. That clockwise ocean gyre that sweeps past Japan to Alaska then to Vancouver BC/Seattle forms what is called the California current, here in Oregon that cold water heads straight down our coast line to Baja California.
There is a reason Marine weather/sea reports are always referenced as "North of" or "South of " Cape Blanco ... if you live North of Cape Blanco you are very aware that the summer wind comes out of the North, then reverses in Winter to come out of the south, and all of it being "straight line winds". If you live South of Cape Blanco, the wind seems to have no direction, it does its own erratic swirly thing, here's why.
Beginning in November, down in central California, the Davidson Current, a surface ocean counter current of reverse flow begins to run upwards (Northward), closely hugging our coast, ocean currents (and the winds) want to travel in straight lines, but Cape Blanco and Cape Mendocino/Punta Gorda both stick out from shore and divert the flow (and following winds) away from land dissolving it, creating a turbulance, at the coastal inland depression centered at around Klamath California ... causing the area between the two points to have different weather/sea conditions, and create a banana belt.
There is a lot more to the Davidson, and what it does to us, but Point Blanco is the real dynamic impacting our Paradise Point area weather and sea conditions (all year around).
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