The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-08-12
MURMURs FROM THE PACIFIC.
BIG CREEK, Aug. IL.

/ Ed. GAzETTE:-Our company OF
campers has continued to increase TIL
some have been compelled to go be-
yond the limits of the camping grounds
to find place for their canvas castles.
] Three of the latest arrivals are from
| Corvallis. Two families from Nye
creek Glanced to stop at our camp
while on their way to the lighthouse,
and were so taken with the grounds
] that the evening found them stretch
ing their tents with us.
With the weather so deliciously cool
and pleasant here, we can hardly real
ize that it is so warm as it is out In
the valley. Each time some one ar
rives to tell us how warm it was when
| he left home, we are less willing to re-
turn. Even the thought of leaving
here, where winter clothing IS so ac-
ceptable to find place where the sum
mer suit is not light enough, causes
drops of perspiration to start, only to
be repuIsed by the stiff sou 'wester
blowing down the beach. Such idle,
careless lives as we are leading here can
be of but short duration. Although
infatuated with this our second, yet we
cannot deny that the idea of being
with our first love gives us pleasure.
The ladies of our camp have SO i'm
proved in their art of cooking, partic-
ularly in the building of palatable bread
that we now suffer less from the pangs
of hunger than at first. This stale
ment may be misleading. We intend
| to say that better bread, better viands
in general have never been Set before
any campers, no matter from whence
they came. Early rising, vigorous ex-
ercise and pure air and water have
given us enormous appetites. Perhaps
enormous is not expressive enough
they are prodigious. We are always
hungry. A sign has been attached to
our kitchen which may give you some
idea. It read "Big Creek Bakery"
Loaves of bread Of extra large size re-
tail, when there is any left over, for 10
cents each.
At this particular time the tides are
quite low and many avail themselves
of an opportunity to walk on the beach
seeking curios
One morning of this week we had
the pleasure of meeting one of the GA
zETTE staff, making his way to Cape
FouIweather, with four ladies in tow.
In his left hand he carried bucket,
undoubtedly containing their lunch.
We paused, tipped our hats, and won
dered how he could get enough
for five large persons in that one small
bucket. We also acknowledge a call
from the GAZETTE himself, This was
before taking his jaunt down to the Stu
slaw and back. He returned with his
eyes full of sand and his garments torn,
but running over with praises OF the
scenery. The brush is totally made
quate to produce such pictures as ma
ture gives Us here. Human mind can
conceive nothing better. Human eyes
have seen nothing more beautiful
Human hands have not the skill to re-
produce even that which the eyes see.
A short way from our camp is a
natural park. The ground is covered
with ferns and MOSES. Overhead are
arches of thick foliage supported by
! the great trunks of trees standing as
| pillars. On either side is dense tan
gle of smaller trees forming a SEEM
ingly impenetrable wall. I cannot de
scribe the spot with all its charms. 1t
must be seen to be fully appreciated.
A gentleman from Forest Grove has
given it the name of the "enchanted
forest" To call it the "lovers' walk"
would be more appropriate, if there was
anything to suggest that. 1t would be
dandy place to spoon. Especially SO
when the moon is just rising over the
hills beyond. The half-burnt spectre
like trees stand out like sentinels
guarding the valleys below. Here in
the quietness of the evening, when all
nature seems to sleep, the mind would
forget its material home and wander
out to dwell on the beauties of the scene.
But realization of self is
produced by the gentle mosquito who,
after humming his vesper song to the
familiar air of a-ra-boom-de-ay
selects the nasal ornament, made ten.
der and luminous by the MONDAY sun,
as his roost for the night. would no,
] have any one believe that the mosqui
to deserves his title of ubiquitous, fol
singul rly enough the absence of this
little artesian borer is conspicuous.
AS the correspondent from Newporl
in your contemporary has in a measure
retracted utterances he may have made
respecting ourselves and our parapher
MALTA, we will forget that anything may
have been said by us from which il
might have been inferred, or was in
ferred, that we accepted it as a per
| sonal thrust, and blotting it from oul
| memory sink the fomahawlS of nm