Monday: Exploring along the coast

On Monday, we left Portland/Vancouver to head to the beach house.  We drove down the Columbia to Astoria and stopped to take a little break.  We then drove down to Tillamook Head and Haystack rock.  The park for Tillamook head was beautiful and lush, and haystack rock was impressively large.  We continued from there to the Tillamook cheese factory and then along the coast eventually to our beach house in Waldport.  We arrived in Waldport just as the sun was setting, so we parked by the beach and ran to the shore to watch the sun melt into the ocean.  The video is of the boys getting to the ocean for the first time after spending all day in the car.

Outside the Astoria Maritime museum

The road in the Tillamook head park

 Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach

 Overlooking Haystack Rock

 Cheese factory after enjoying yummy ice cream cones

Finally! At the beach a great reward for a day spent in the car