I headed north to Astoria, but it was a gray day, and I felt out of sorts. I never actually found the Riverwalk, or where the tourists went, so I walked for a little bit along the dock. It was cloudy and there was no sunset to speak of. I came back to Seaside.
Then I headed south to Cannon Beach.
Now what I knew of Cannon Beach is a little strange. Most of the churches we have gone to have had couples or family retreats there at a Christian Conference Center. We had never been. Years ago however, before the boys were born, Cedar Park Assembly had a couple's retreat there. The wife of one young couple, who had two little girls, returned from the weekend alone. Apparently, her husband had gone off hiking, and did not return. A couple days later, his wallet was found in someone's crab pot. How bizarre is that? That in all of the Pacific Ocean waters, his wallet made it safely into a crab pot? It sounded fishy to us. About 5 days later, his body was found washed up on the beach. They said he had fallen from the trail, but I guess we will never actually know.
Anyways, I always pictured Cannon Beach as being up on a cliff. It isn't.
I spent the first day at Ecola State Park.
Yep, these are the colors I want to live in....
Looking out to the Tillamook Lighthouse which is no longer used. It is a bird sanctuary and a columbarium.
I hiked Tillamook Head. I hadn't planned on it. I was only going to to the first viewpoint, but I must have missed it. This might have been it....
By the tme I figured I was past that point, I had then gone quite a distance, but didn't know how far to the top. Really couldn't turn around because then I would have turned around and not made the top. Several people I passed had already commented to me that the fog was coming in and I would probably not be able to see the lighthouse.
It was a tough hike! At one point I was ready to give up... and just a few feet down the path, nestled between two trees was the prettiest flower! I hadn't seen one so far on the trail and I just felt like God was telling me that I could make it :)
The trail...
In my flippy-floppies...
I made it to the top!!
And, as predicted, the fog had rolled in. I know the lighthouse was out there somewhere though!
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