Aug 21,
We have moved to Cape Discovery State Park near Long Beach Washington.
We were hoping to get to see the largest kite festival in the states, BUT it has rained both days and we are giving up. We went to the beach twice, today it had stopped raining and we took Mickey. Till we got there the rain was starting and people were running off the beach. We walked out anyway thinking it would soon stop. We are both soaked and I finally gave up when I looked at Mickey and he was soaked and shaking, We have come back to the motorhome and will be driving south along the Oregon Coast.
WOW! What a beautiful coast! We didn’t get too far for stopping and picture taking. We stopped and toured the Tillamook Cheese Factory. We have toured cheese factories before but this was by far the largest of the ones we have seen. They also make butter and ice cream. Of course we tried three flavors, Blackberry, blueberry cheesecake, and Oregon berry. We also toured the Clatsop National Park, which is mainly the area around the fort built by Lewis and Clark, with a Lewis and Clark museum covering their time here in northern Oregon and Washington. We drove out to the Tillamook Air Museum which was a Blimp factory for World War 2, but we didn’t go in as we had just toured the Boeing air museum and they had a lot of the same thing.
Aug 23
We are now at a small coastal town called Waldport. We are at a passport park, a marina where most of the campers are here for fishing. Everyone has a freezer sitting on their site, and they post the catches of the day on a blackboard. We will be here 4 nights exploring both north and south of here before we move south about 35 miles to Florence OR. We have been exploring tide pools, seeing lots of large starfish, sea anemones, seal and sea lions. SOO much fun! Tomorrow we are going to try to spot whales, and hopefully find more great tide pools to explore.
The towns are all special I especially liked Newport where we spent some time down at the fishing docks talking to the sea lions.
I’ll have to send extra pictures this timeLois