Oregon Coast

Even before we heard of the forecasted record high temperatures for the Portland area on Friday, Heather and I decided to go to the coast and see the far western border of this new state we have moved to. We left the city and it was already baking hot, but as we drove due west an hour and a half, tems began to fall as we neared the town of Tillamook where we stopped for lunch. We had set our sights on hiking Cape Lookout, which was to provide amazing views along the rocky coastline and multiple viewpoints.

We pulled up to the trailhead in the midst of a rainforest. It was very cool (low 60's was my guess), rainy, and cloudy. There was over a 30 degree temperature change between the city and the coast, only an hour and a half drive away. So, layered up (on this record hot day for the areas back east that we left) and began the trail shivering in our jackets. We got to one of the first viewpoints, and realized we were just not going to get our way with the views today; this is what we saw from our great viewpoint of the coast below:

Anyway, we continued through the rain and clouds along the hike, but the viewpoint at the end was nothing greater than a big white/grey cloud blocking everything. So, we headed back to the car and decided to drive up the coast a little bit to see if the weather would break and make a loop before heading back to Portland.

We did find this nice viewpoint on the side of the road:

This was the beach scene at Canon Beach and Haystack Rock:

It was quite cold on the beach we found: Note heather has on jeans, a sweater, and now a blanket, in the middle of summer: