May 24 - 25, 2015
Our one year wedding anniversary coincides with Memorial Day weekend so Andy planned a fun weekend in Oregon. We stayed Friday and Saturday night in Portland doing city stuff and grabbed three growlers of beer from Deschutes Brewery before heading to the coast on Sunday morning.
Andy's a Subaru car guy now so we were able to pack a lot of goodies with us to go car camping at Cape Lookout. He was able to nab us one of the nicer more private spots a few weeks earlier. Beach access was literally across the driveway. It seemed like almost every campsite brought their furkids so we've planned a trip back here in August with all the dogs and their humans.
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| Chop, chop |
We arrived at the campsite on Sunday afternoon. As you can see above, we brought our roomy 4-person Coleman tent :) After setting up camp we went down to the beach for some beer and frisbee.
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| Looking south |
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| Sittin' on the beach |
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| Hang-gliders! |
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| Andy cooking dinner (steak, bell pepper, onion, garlic kebabs and beans). I'm a lucky gal. |
After Monday morning breakfast we tore down camp and drove up to Cape Lookout trailhead which is less than a 5 mile hike roundtrip. It's an easy, wide trail with a section of mud but nothing to worry about. We started our hike early and ran into a local man on his way up. On our way down around 10 am we ran into at least six groups going up.
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| On the drive up |
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| Beginning of the hike |
Pictures from the end of the hike are not posting correctly so oh well. We didn't see any whales, but saw some seafoam lining up in the open water. Currents must have lined up just right or something. I had forgotten how much nicer the beaches are in Oregon compared to Washington.
Of course we stopped by Tillamook Factory on our way home! It was our first time. All you really do is eat and shop. You can look in to the factory floor, too. Reminded me a bit of Ikea. We bought five or six different kinds of cheeses, fudge for our friends, and some meat sticks. Yum yum! My kind of trip.
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| Me: Black Cherry; Andy: Black Cherry, Wild Mountain Blackberry, Oregon Blueberry Patch |
