Netarts Bay

Donna here:

Netarts Bay is very special. Besides the great dungeness crab season they are having this year, the crabbing is out of this world. Netarts is on the upper right and has a very, very shallow and dangerous entrance for even small boats.

Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge is right outside the entrance to Netarts Bay.

How could you not like a view such as this. Besides the clammers and crabbers, we watch an assortment of seals, birds and other wildlife out the front window.

We are perched on a small rise overlooking the bay.

The reason crabbing and clamming are so good here is that there is virtually no run off of any farm lands and only two small freshwater creeks that feed the bay...a lot of "pure" salt water.

All the crabs at the RV park are measured to make sure they are "legals" and males...if not they are thrown back till next year.

If they are male and legal...yum, yum.

Our doggie kids loved running on the beach and it was so nice to still have sand in the bed, a week later!

I love just relaxing and looking out past "Haystack" rock just south of Netarts Bay in Pacific City. Haystack is also called Kiwanda Rock, not to be confused with another Haystack off Cannon Beach.

One small view from the motorhome, of the bay as the day draws to a close.