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Newport Oregon Vacation Rentals Presents Listing #3585

Oceanfront Cottage on Oregon Coast- Windside Cottage

Cottage w/ 2 Bedrooms - 2 Bathrooms - Sleeps 8

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Vacation Rental Description

Windside Cottage is an oceanfront vacation home situated on Oregon’s  
central coast just south of Newport. Its strategic location provides  
visitors with a combination of scenic privacy  and ready access to  
Newport’s maritime attractions. Enjoy the pounding surf from the  
master suite balcony or stroll down to the ocean from your own  
private stairway access just outside your door. Ten miles of sandy  
beach awaits you! Some of the nearby attractions: The Oregon Coast  
Aquarium, Mark Hatfield Science Center, Newport's historic bayfront,  
Seafood and Wine Festival, Numerous state and federal parks and  
scenic areas, diverse seafood dining, crabbing, clamming, etc.

Vacation Rental Amenities

Cable Tv,Dvd Vcr, Phone, Full Kitchen, Microwave, Refrigerator, Cooking  
utensils provided, Linens provided, Washer, Dryer, Pets NOT allowed,  
No Smoking

Activities and Attractions

Hiking, Biking, Golf, Tennis, Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife Viewing,  
Horseback Riding, Shopping, Restaurants, Cinemas, Museums,  
Sightseeing, Swimming, Snorkeling/Diving, Boating, Sailing,  
Waterskiing, Surfing, Windsurfing, Parasailing, Jet Skiing,  
Shelling 
 
Oregon: A whale of a vacation 
'A world-class natural phenomenon' 
CNN Wednesday, January 22, 2003 Posted: 11:36 AM EST (1636 GMT) 
 Oregon (AP) -- Bundled up against the wind and rain, Joan Lynch 
leaned against the fender of her pickup truck to steady herself and 
trained her binoculars on the Pacific Ocean in hopes of spotting a 
heart-shaped spout or a flash of flukes from a passing gray whale.  
"There's a spout almost all the way out," she said in measured tones 
from her vantage high on Cape Ferrelo, and immediately conversation 
stopped and four pairs of binoculars focused on the horizon. "Somebody 
says 'Spout!' and everybody stops talking and starts concentrating."  
By an accident of nature, thousands of gray whale families migrate 
past the Oregon Coast each year on their annual 5,000-mile trek from 
the Bering Sea to Baja California just when human families are 
enjoying their Christmas vacation from school. The whales return north 
during spring break.  
For 25 years, a network of volunteers like Lynch and her husband, Bob, 
has taken up their assigned posts on cold, rainy, wind-whipped 
headlands and in cozy, dry, beachfront resorts up and down the coast 
to take advantage of that happy coincidence to spread the word.  
"It's a world-class natural phenomenon you might have missed just for 
lack of a knowledgeable person pointing in the right direction," said 
Mike Rivers from his office in Newport, where he coordinates more than 
200 volunteers in the Whale Watching Spoken Here program for the 
Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.  
"You get this feeling for the excitement of the migration," said 
Rivers. "They're going to Mexico. They're not bothering to stop or 
say, 'Hi!' They're going where the water is a little bit warmer and 
they'll mate and have babies, like they have their whole lives. This 
whole phenomenon is going on that is just awesome!"  
40,000 people in two weeks 
The volunteer effort was the brainchild of the late Don Giles, a Sea 
Grant extension specialist at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in 
Newport. He noticed the migration-vacation connection in research on 
gray whale migrations by Oregon State University professor Bruce Mate.  
"It's just phenomenal how many people, usually about 40,000 
individuals, the program touches," said Mate. "Typically, they are 
reaching people from most states in the union, and very typically 
three dozen foreign countries.  
The gray whale is one of just seven species ever taken off the 
Endangered Species List. That happened in 1994, 59 years after they 
were protected from commercial whaling, first by the League of Nations 
and then by the International Whaling Commission.  
'There's a mystery to them' 
On Cape Ferrelo, Joan and Bob Lynch ignored the wind and rain as they 
trained their binoculars on the ocean for the telltale heart-shaped 
spout, formed because gray whales have two blow holes. As many as 30 
whales per hour will swim by. 
Both retired -- he's the former sheriff of Hood River County and she's 
a former teacher -- they are in their 13th season as whale watching 
volunteers living out of their fifth-wheel trailer.  
"They're big and they're beautiful," Bob Lynch said of the whales that 
keep him coming back.  
"And there's a mystery to them," added his wife. "There's so much we 
don't know."  
"One o'clock, there's a blow!" interjected Linda Carpenter, a computer 
technician vacationing from Foster City, California. All talking 
stopped and binoculars were trained on the ocean.  
"Sleep in, watch the whales, then take the rest of the day off," 
Carpenter said of her vacation routine. "When you see them come out of 
the water and breech, it makes it worthwhile for a couple hours of 
doing nothing."

Vacation Rental Rates

Summer rates, June 1 through the September Labor Day weekend:  
    Daily: $145/night, with a two night minimum and  
   Weekly: $875 
 
  Weekend rates year-around (Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays) and 
Holidays (including the spring break period of the last two weeks of 
March and first week of April, Thanksgiving week, and Christmas week 
through New Years) excluding summer rate period of June through the 
September Labor Day weekend: 
       Daily: $135 with a two night minimum 
       Weekly: $810 
  
Spring and Fall rates, The second week of May to June 1 and September 
to November 1: 
       Daily: $135 with a two night minimum 
       Weekly: $810 
 
Off season- November 1 through the second week of May (excluding 
weekends, holidays and all of the above)  
       Monday-Thursday: $100/night with a two night minimum or$600/week 
           Special monthly rates are available 
	There is a $85 cleaning fee and a 7% county/state room tax.