Bandon Dunes | Bullard's Beach State Park

Thursday & Friday | 12 & 13 October 2000 | Bandon, Oregon: DT and I are off on a three week trip "south"... the journey is truly the destination on this trip, as we are playing it a bit day-to-day, though we do have a few plans and campsite reservations. We started the trip by meeting our friend Matt on the southern Oregon coast for a day of golf at Bandon Dunes - a new and very difficult course, built in the true "Scottish links style" into the sand dunes just north of Bandon, Oregon. We checked-in at Bullard’s Beach State Park, and had to move because we were too long for the reserved campsite. Luckily, they were able to accommodate us in another site. Matt had dinner with us at our campsite - serious carbo-loading for our challenge the next day. The tee-time was for 8 a.m., so we had an early night.

The next morning, there was a bit of a drizzle, but it did not deter us from our "course". DT and Matt played pretty well, considering the difficulty and length of the course. Bandon Dunes was extraordinarily beautiful, with several of the holes following along the beach. Okay, okay, so it was in a drizzle and the sea was grey - the views were still fabulous. Unfortunately, the Bandon Dunes course is littered with pot bunkers, which are straight-sided on one edge, making it nearly impossible to chip out of the bunker unless you can get your ball straight-up-and-out. (Yeah, right, no problem.) I usually fetched the ball with rake and tossed it into the fairway. (I was not playing by USGA rules, but the "try to keep up with the husband rules".)
 
We had lunch at the Bandon Dunes golf club and poked around the pro shop, before we each headed to our camper and hotel for rest and dry-off before dinner. We met in town at a local bar situated in the basement of a seafood restaurant. For a time, we were the only customers in the lounge, but things picked-up when a few local characters stumbled-in, including one "Captain Jack". The chat centered on the tremendous tome known as the "Voters Pamphlet". (It seems the pamphlet is much larger than the Bandon phone book.) We watched the Mariners lose to the Yankees, and then headed down the street to a Mexican restaurant with five booths for dinner.

RV PARK: Bullard’s Beach State Park
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