5 Port Orford

This town and promontory South of Bandon Beach prides itself on offering beautiful scenery without crowds, since it is a longer drive from Coos Bay.

I launched from the commercial jetty and flew across the face of the tall headland out to Tichenor Island, a flight of nearly a mile. It’s lonely out there unless you are very confident in your drone. It is a place for fish, birds and sea lions—not people…