It is such a luxury to be in search of "just right," and interesting to see how changing and illusive 'just right' can be. (But we will leave that discussion for another time.) Leaving the hot weather in Corvallis we drove to the coastal city of Newport and
then up Highway 101 to Nehalem Bay State Park.
We had stayed there one night after we left the Tillamook Forest several weeks
ago and liked it very much. Two peaceful
days were spent in the park enjoying the gorgeous beach and driving up Highway
101 visiting the little seaside towns.
We especially enjoyed the charming town of Canon Beach with its art
galleries, beautiful seaside views and Haystack Rock, a 235-foot monolith right
off shore. And the weather was 'just right.'
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| Near the beach at Nehalem Bay State Park |
We had lunch at a little restaurant in Nehalem called Wanda’s. It was a fun little place full of kitschy ‘state plates’ from someone’s collection. David and I had a cool TV fireplace right at our table. We had tasty sandwiches, mine a turkey Reuben and David's was a chicken, mushroom, caramelized onion and Swiss cheese sandwich.
Ecola State Park, a day use area, was just a few miles north of Canon Beach and it had great views of the nearby rock islands filled with nesting birds. You can view ‘Terrible Tilly’ from the park, a rock island that was made into a formidable lighthouse in the late 1800’s and then decommissioned in 1957 and turned into a columbarium (where people’s ashes are interned) and eventually reclaimed by the nesting birds.
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| Haystacks near Canon Beach |
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| Seaside town of Nehalem |
We had lunch at a little restaurant in Nehalem called Wanda’s. It was a fun little place full of kitschy ‘state plates’ from someone’s collection. David and I had a cool TV fireplace right at our table. We had tasty sandwiches, mine a turkey Reuben and David's was a chicken, mushroom, caramelized onion and Swiss cheese sandwich.
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| Dining by the fireside TV |
Ecola State Park, a day use area, was just a few miles north of Canon Beach and it had great views of the nearby rock islands filled with nesting birds. You can view ‘Terrible Tilly’ from the park, a rock island that was made into a formidable lighthouse in the late 1800’s and then decommissioned in 1957 and turned into a columbarium (where people’s ashes are interned) and eventually reclaimed by the nesting birds.
Ecola State Park
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