It was
quite sad this morning saying goodbye to everyone at camp, they have all become
such great friends and have been so helpful with so many things. But it was
time to move on and head south.
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| Over the Columbia River and into Oregon |
Over the
Columbia River and into Oregon
and onto our next leg of the journey. Interesting Oregon
does not have a sales tax, unlike Washington,
but personal tax is higher –we aren’t complaining though.
First stop
was Costco at Warrenton, we had just bought a small amount of meat at Costco at
the start of our tip to try it out, but both the steak and pork were so good we
decided to buy up and wrap in meal size portions and freeze it, Ruakiwi has a
really good size freezer, and we shouldn’t need to worry now for meat now for
the next 3 weeks. But went to fuel up at Costco Fuel Stop as the petrol is such
a good price, only to find that they didn’t take cash or credit cards, only
debit cards!!! I think we can take cash into the store and get a Costco card,
but by this stage we were over shopping and just wanted to get on the road.
Will remember for next time.
Took route
101 down the coast and even though the holidays are over it was surprisingly
busy. We stopped for lunch at the Ecola
State Park overlooking
the coast, spectacular views. Mind you we should have taken head of the notice
at the bottom of the road where it said “No trailers permitted”, as the road
was extremely narrow, windy and with overhanging branches. Ian was rather tense
for the 1 ½ miles, but we made it and found an RV larger than ours at the
overlook!
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| Kite flying on Cannon Beach |
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| The Jeffrey Hull Gallery |
Cannon Beach is a very popular spot, and we
could see why with the miles of white sandy beaches. A really quaint town with
lots of arty shops and cafes. We enjoyed walking around and had to have a look
at the Jeffrey Hull Gallery ( www.hullgallery.com)
…Heatherbelle you would have been impressed with this! Ian’s grandparents were
Hulls!!! I really liked his local art of the Cannon Beach
area. We stopped at Tolovana Beach
and looked back at Haystack Rock, a tall rock just off shore that is the symbol
of Cannon Beach.
Continued
onto Manzanita and the Nehalem State
Park, a really great sheltered park, with access to a beautiful beach through
the sand dunes. Have to say though that walking through the soft sand was not
good for the knees.
The weather
today has been perfect, sunny, temps in the mid 20’s and a gentle breeze, we
are enjoying it.
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| Very interesting sign on the beach....didn't see anything though. |
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| Nehalem Beach |
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