Bye bye snacks and hello fog!
We spent 11 days along the beautiful Oregon coast and15 were in fog. Mom and Dad had to wear sweaters, and we had the heat on every morning and many evenings. I love to sleep under the covers most of the time but really needed to be under them this time!
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| Disappointment Bay Lighthouse |
We started in the northwestern part of Oregon at Fort Stevens State Park near Astoria. The park was wonderful with beaches and fields to run in, but a billion kids were running around. They scared me sometimes. Astoria is a small town at the southern end of a four and a half mile bridge to Washington. We went back to Washington to visit part of the Lewis and Clark Trail and to see two cool lighthouses. One of the lighthouses was a three quarter walk straight up! The folks needed showers when they got back home.
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| John Jacob Astor School |
If you know Mom, then you know she likes kids movies. Well, Astoria seems to have been a setting for a bunch of movies. Once she figured that out, we had to visit each place and take pictures! One of her favorites is
Kindergarten Cop. The elementary school where the little boy went to school and the mom was a teacher was right there on a hill overlooking the harbor and bridge to Washington. Mom felt the need to take pictures at the John Jacob Astor Elementary School where
the movie was filmed. Phaedra and I volunteered to pose in front of the school, but she declined. Do you remember the
Goonies? Well, the house of Mikey Walsh (Sean Astin) of the Goonies was just down the block from the school. Mom had to climb this great huge hill in order to take pictures of the house. Then she learned that the bridge to Washington was filmed when robots from Short Circuit threw themselves off the bridge. So, once again, photos were taken. And, she never put us in one of the thousands of pictures she took! Humph!
Each year that I have been around, Papa and Mom celebrate their anniversary while we are on trips. This year was a big one and they found a nice restaurant in Astoria. Do you know that they have been married 41 years? We get the leftovers from their dinners out. It’s usually meat from Papa. But, I will eat veggies from Mom, too. Phaedra won’t have any of it so that mean’s more for me. Do you know what they started calling me? Chunky Monkey! I have only gained a pound or two.
We spent a day driving south to Tillamook, which was wonderful. Dad went into the famous cheese factory and brought back, yes, cheese. Phaedra and I even got some. We visited 2 more lighthouses. We also spent time at Seaside, which is a resort town, and Canon Beach, which is really neat. We got to run on the beach as they looked at the Haystack Rock. I think Mom would like to live in Canon Beach if it didn’t take 8 days to get here.
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| Camping at the Marina |
After our stay in the northwestern corner of Oregon, we drove south and spent time in Newport at a marina and RV spot. This was so cool. We could hear the barking of sea lions all day and night. The boats that are moored right near the camper look like lots of fun. And there are lots of dogs on the boats, too. I tried to run aboard one of them but Papa called me back. Bah humbug!
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| Baby Western Seagull being fed by parent |
Mom and Dad went to the Bayfront District and watched thousands of sea lions. (Well, maybe not thousands, but a ton of them!) There was a great area as we drove north to see Depot Bay (the smallest harbor in the world) with seals swimming around, too. We even went on to Boiler Bay and watched a grey whale near shore. Mom tried to photograph him, but by the time she realized that he was surfacing, he was gone and it was too late.
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| Lazy Sea Lions |
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| Whale Back |
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| Bad Hair Day" for the Puffin |
We went to 2 lighthouses near Newport. One was at a park that had a place overlooking rocks filled with - - yes you guessed it, seals. We went back there 3 times while in Newport. Mom and Dad went to the aquarium there and they even had an aviary with a lot of tufted puffins. We could not go. But, we did get to see the video which mom took of a crazy, loco
Tufted Ear Puffin. He went back and forth, round and round. It was so funny. Maybe you will like it too, so I’m going to send you the link. (Don’t you think I’m so clever? You know, I never lived when there wasn’t google. Doesn’t that make you feel young? HA!)
The best time we had was a day trip south to Hecata Head lighthouse and Cape Perpetua. This lighthouse was really pretty; it’s the first one they have seen that is as nice as many along Lake Michigan that they saw last year. There were beautiful views and we stopped at a few beaches and we were able to run all over. Boy, were we tired! They stopped at Seal Rock and saw, yes, seals again. We were too tired and stayed asleep in the car.
We're off to Winchester Bay tomorrow to stay in another marina. I wonder if we’ll hear the sea lions all night long there, too.
We started in the northwestern part of Oregon at Fort Stevens State Park near Astoria. The park was wonderful with beaches and fields to run in, but a billion kids were running around. They scared me sometimes. Astoria is a small town at the southern end of a four and a half mile bridge to Washington. We went back to Washington to visit part of the Lewis and Clark Trail and to see two cool lighthouses. One of the lighthouses was a three quarter walk straight up! The folks needed showers when they got back home.
If you know Mom, then you know she likes kids movies. Well, Astoria seems to have been a setting for a bunch of movies. Once she figured that out, we had to visit each place and take pictures! One of her favorites is Kindergarten Cop. The elementary school where the little boy went to school and the mom was a teacher was right there on a hill overlooking the harbor and bridge to Washington. Mom felt the need to take pictures at the John Jacob Astor Elementary School where the movie was filmed. Phaedra and I volunteered to pose in front of the school, but she declined. Do you remember the Goonies? Well, the house of Mikey Walsh (Sean Astin) of the Goonies was just down the block from the school. Mom had to climb this great huge hill in order to take pictures of the house. Then she learned that the bridge to Washington was filmed when robots from Short Circuit threw themselves off the bridge. So, once again, photos were taken. And, she never put us in one of the thousands of pictures she took! Humph!
After our stay in the northwestern corner of Oregon, we drove south and spent time in Newport at a marina and RV spot. This was so cool. We could hear the barking of sea lions all day and night. The boats that are moored right near the camper look like lots of fun. And there are lots of dogs on the boats, too. I tried to run aboard one of them but Papa called me back. Bah humbug! 
The best time we had was a day trip south to Hecata Head lighthouse and Cape Perpetua. This lighthouse was really pretty; it’s the first one they have seen that is as nice as many along Lake Michigan that they saw last year. There were beautiful views and we stopped at a few beaches and we were able to run all over. Boy, were we tired! They stopped at Seal Rock and saw, yes, seals again. We were too tired and stayed asleep in the car.
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