Oregon coast tour

Coos Bay is big enough to have a little brother, the South Slough. South Slough is not a very

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glitzy name, nor is it a glitzy place, but it gets the job done by keeping a part of the big bay wild, and by being there as an educational tool for visitors about the importance of saltwater estuaries. Coos Bay itself is 10 miles long in the shape of an S. It's a busy shipping channel and the location of the main cities, Coos Bay and North Bend, which make this the most populous area in the Oregon coast. The South Slough is an arm of Coos Bay, right near the ocean at the community of Charleston, which is the fishing port of Coos Bay. There's a bit of commercial activity on the South Slough where it joins Coos Bay, but the upper four miles are fairly pristine and will stay that way with its protection as a National Estuarine Research Reserve. This national program is run by NOAA, with 28 reserves, with state partners (in this case, Oregon Department of State Lands). The only other similarly protected estuary in the Pacific Northwest is Padilla Bay on the inland saltwater north of Puget Sound in Washington's Skagit County. More.