Holiday Inn Express Suites Newport

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The next stop was at Cannon Beach which is the home of the Haystack Rock. The sun shone a little bit and we did see a rainbow while on the beach.

Our next stop was at the Tillamook Cheese Factory. You are able to go up on the viewing level above were the employees are working. You get to see the cheese assembly line where the cheese is cut and packaged. We did get to taste ...

... the Jellyfish' because so many jellyfish were washing up on shore and people and animals were stepping on them and getting stung. We were probably prewarned about the jellyfish, but I am sure that went in one year and out the other. The first day there we saw all of the jellyfish and decided that we wanted to collect as many as we could over the week and take them home as ...

Our next adventure took us from the mountains of Oregon to its coast. We headed first to a campground near South Beach OR, about a third of the way down the coast. After a few days there, we headed further south to Sunset Bay State Park so that we could continue our explorations.

For most of our exploring, we stayed on Hwy 101 which is also the Pacific Coast Scenic Byway. The Oregon coast is protected and the state has done a great job ...

... Eleanor’s Undertow ice cream shop. It was in the Taft district at Silitz Bay and was a bright pink shop with a mermaid gracing the front entrance! Dawn and Margaret had a milkshake while Mom and Deanna opted for the cobblers. The marionberry cobbler was unusual and delicious; moms peach was just as yummy. Milkshakes were also reported as excellent, but filling. Maps of Lincoln City were available for purchase as well in the shop, mom wanted to buy ...

... activities doing the 100 yard mozey, drinking lousy coffee and eating baked tuna sandwiches, yuk! However we did get to see the Three Arch Rocks, the Aquarium, maritime Museum and the Yaquina Lighthouse which overlooks a significant seal and seabird nesting area. So many birds have struck and broken the windows that they've all been reinforced with Plexiglas screwed to the outside. This lighthouse is one ...

... glue! We ended up with 3 blocks of wood to clamp it down which would have worked but we needed to leave so we gave up. We visited a cheese factory called Tillymook Creamery which also makes ice-cream so we had to pay a visit! Before we went in Steve and I put the blocks of wood back on the panel to wedge it in so the glue would stick while we were in the cheese factory. The ice-cream was a big disappointment , not a patch on Rush ...

... the squawking birds!), we drove to Newport's Historic Bayfront, and old seaport with many, many, fishing trawlers, lots of crab pots piled up everywhere. As we walked down Bay Boulevard, we heard some very raucous barking, and walked out on a pier to look down on a dozen VERY large sea lions, most of whom seemed to take great pleasure in barking loudly at a younger one who wanted to get up on the wooden rafts on which the old guys were ...

... covered bridges as most are on the east coast. We did a small inland loop to visit Drift Creek Covered Bridge & is the oldest remaining covered bridge near Lincoln City.



We couldn't believe the size of the giant seagulls who in every town took a dislike to Nathan & would follow our car for miles ...

... the warmer surface resulting in landward breezes during daytime and seaward movements at night. This also accounts for the period of calm morning and evening. These are my favorite times along the oceans. Somewhere I managed to get into poison ivy or something similar. I'm getting a rash all over, including the cheeks of my tail. Not too bad, just uncomfortable and a little embarrassing when I allow someone to catch me scratching ...