Bandon has good baked goods and outstanding chainsaw art.

If you're a jelly-donut lover, Dundee's Donuts on Broadway in Seaside is your place (see earlier installment in this blog). Elsewhere along the coast, we found some good towns with good bakeries, but most aimed to be too highbrow to offer the lowly jelly donut. (What have beach towns come to?)

A few other places worth a stop:

For other pastries, try Sea Dog Bakery, on the west side of 101 in Waldport (thanks for the reader tip) for the mixed-berry Danish (with whole, juicy berries front and center); Pacific Way Bakery, on Pacific Way in Gearhart, for the lemon Danish; or Bandon Baking Co. (for German pastries) or Two Loons Cafe (for marionberry scones with lemon curd, and free wi-fi), both on Second Street in Old Town Bandon -- worth a stop for a nice waterfront with a glass-enclosed picnic shelter with a peekaboo view of the Coquille River Lighthouse and the best chainsaw carvings for miles around.