We were planning to go to the beach on Sunday, but Sami read the weather report Saturday morning and decided Saturday would be better. We took the direct route - Hwy 26 to Cannon Beach. We've done most of the geocaches on that route on other occasions, but there are still a few.
The first one we tried was at a viewpoint. The clouds were covering Mt. St. Helens, so we didn't see it, but we ate some thimbleberries and took pictures of some roadside wildflowers while we waited for other cars to leave. Unfortunately we didn't find the cache there, better luck next time.
We found the next cache (TweedleDee Tweedle Dum) with no problem. Sami was hungry, so we started looking for a place to eat. There is a restaurant on Hwy 26 called Camp 18. It's kind of a tourist spot with a giftshop and a small logging museum, but the food was pretty good and reasonably priced. I don't know why we didn't take any pictures of the machinery. There was also supposed to be a cache there, but we couldn't find it. I got an email from the cache owner today saying he checked it and it's missing.
After lunch, we stopped and found a tiny little micro cache near the Klootchy Creek Giant Spruce tree. We've taken our picture several times with there tree in the past, but now it is falling down and people are not allowed underneath it.
There were tiny little fish in the creek and tons of these cool water bugs.
After that we attempted a few geocaches at Hug Point State Park where we had so much fun scrambling around on rocks that we forgot to take very many pictures.
There was a very cool little waterfall right on the beach and some interesting caves.
I'm standing on top of the waterfall here.
The weather was actually pretty hot. We saw more people at the beach on Saturday than we ever have. It's pretty unusual to see so many people daring to go into the Pacific ocean without a wetsuit.
On our way back to the car, Sami said "Look, the birds found a fish, poor fish." So I looked, but it wasn't a fish. It was bag of chips. The birds had already gotten the bag open by the time we arrived, so it never occurred to us to shoo them away. We sat there watching the seagulls and crows fight over the chips, sneaking around and trying to steal them from each other for quite a while.
Next we went to Oswald West State Park. The path from the parking area to the beach is fairly long, half a mile or so, but it is amazing. Truly a walk through the rainforest to get to the ocean.
Oswald West also seems to be a favorite with the surfers. You can't see them in this photo, but there were maybe 50 surfers out there.
All in all, it was a great trip to the beach. The weather was nice and we found some interesting new places. We also found a total of 6 geocaches out of the 12 we searched for. Next time I'll have to take more pictures of the rocks we climbed and of the path through the rainforest to the coast. The campground at Oswald West is very nice - I'd love to spend a weekend there sometime and explore some more.
After lunch, we stopped and found a tiny little micro cache near the Klootchy Creek Giant Spruce tree. We've taken our picture several times with there tree in the past, but now it is falling down and people are not allowed underneath it.There were tiny little fish in the creek and tons of these cool water bugs.After that we attempted a few geocaches at Hug Point State Park where we had so much fun scrambling around on rocks that we forgot to take very many pictures.There was a very cool little waterfall right on the beach and some interesting caves.
I'm standing on top of the waterfall here.The weather was actually pretty hot. We saw more people at the beach on Saturday than we ever have. It's pretty unusual to see so many people daring to go into the Pacific ocean without a wetsuit.
On our way back to the car, Sami said "Look, the birds found a fish, poor fish." So I looked, but it wasn't a fish. It was bag of chips. The birds had already gotten the bag open by the time we arrived, so it never occurred to us to shoo them away. We sat there watching the seagulls and crows fight over the chips, sneaking around and trying to steal them from each other for quite a while.
Next we went to Oswald West State Park. The path from the parking area to the beach is fairly long, half a mile or so, but it is amazing. Truly a walk through the rainforest to get to the ocean.Oswald West also seems to be a favorite with the surfers. You can't see them in this photo, but there were maybe 50 surfers out there.
All in all, it was a great trip to the beach. The weather was nice and we found some interesting new places. We also found a total of 6 geocaches out of the 12 we searched for. Next time I'll have to take more pictures of the rocks we climbed and of the path through the rainforest to the coast. The campground at Oswald West is very nice - I'd love to spend a weekend there sometime and explore some more.
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