Day 2: From Seaside to Reedsport

After a continental breakfast and a leisurely morning at the hotel, we packed up the car again and headed down the Oregon coastal highway just a little ways to Cannon Beach and Haystack Rock. 

 Indulge me here while I post a couple of photos of garden flowers. These beauties grew everywhere you laid your eyes. I have always loved the blue hydrangeas, but these red flowers (which I don't know the name of) seemed to grow wild. They are lovely.

 Cannon Beach...I took this photo because I was intrigued by these bikes that were available to rent, and a lot of people did. It was overcast and windy this morning, so some people wore jackets. It was not cold.

 Early in the trip I was trying to take close up pictures with my tablet. It was later that I realized I was better off not trying to get close-ups but instead take a picture and then crop it for a closer look. So you will have to suffer some pretty blurry photos taken by me.

Haystack Rock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 At the base of Haystack Rock, there were lots of sea life to photograph. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a gorgeous photo taken by my grand daughter which shows the orange starfish, the green anenomies and various seaweed.  The tide was coming back in at this point, so we got back in the car and proceeded on the rest of our trip.

Next scenic stop

 

 By this time the sun had come out and it was pretty hot. One of the places that my son wanted to go to was the Tillamook Cheese factory. Since it was hot and extremely crowded and youngest grand daughter had fallen asleep in the car after that long walk on Cannon Beach, only my son went inside. He bought some cheese curd and beef jerky to bring back to the car and reported that the "tour" was self guided, so we were all satisfied that we didn't miss anything. Besides, we all benefited from the best part (fresh cheese and jerky).


Our next stop was Depoe Bay.

It is something about the waves that make me take far too many pictures of water. I do it all the time. Notice the caves in the rock along the shoreline. I fell in love with this shoreline....rugged coast and beautiful beaches here in Oregon. I bought so many postcards.

Our next stop was a lookout at Siletz Bay.

We took this opportunity to walk down to the beach to stretch our legs.

 My grand daughter decided she would climb up the rock to get some different photos, but I am still waiting for her to pass them on to me. *hint, hint*

The last stop before Reedsport was at Florence where we took photos of the Heceta Head lighthouse near the sea lion caves. We did not go to see those caves as we were anxious to get to our final destination for the night. Besides that, I think those may be sea lions down on the rocks in the foreground. I didn't notice them until later that evening when I was going through my pictures.

 Our hotel this night was lovely. It had a main open sitting room/kitchen with separate alcove with a twin bed for my older grand daughter. Poor thing had been forced to sleep with her grandma the night before, so now she had her own separate bed. My younger grand daughter and I shared one of the queen beds in the bedroom and my son had the other queen bed. There was no pool or A/C at this hotel but the rooms and the continental breakfast more than made up for that. It was definitely a better night's sleep. The temperatures get quite chilly once the sun goes down.