Friday, August 03, 2007

Today was moving day, we are leaving the Logan Road RV Park and heading north, our next stop will be Tillamook, we are staying at the Tillamook Bay City RV Park. It’s a nice park, more homey than some of the other parks we have stayed. The lady at the park was telling us about the Salmon fishing in the area. After we got set up the girls got their first sniff at the area.

Saturday, August 04, 2007

Today we drove the Three Capes Loop, we stopped at Cape Meares State Park and Lighthouse. Got a couple of pictures of the lighthouse, the view of the lighthouse was somewhat hampered by foliage. A beautiful day, the sun was out and the temps were in the 70’s.
The Cape Meares Light is an inactive lighthouse located on Cape Meares just south of Tillamook Bay. The lighthouse was first lit in 1890 and was deactivated in 1963. The light was replaced by a newer tower in 1963. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 and is open to the public.

A peregrine falcon circled over a several times and we watched common murres nesting on the rocks. Other birds were turkey vultures, gulls, cormorants and black ostercatchers.

Our next stop was Oceanside State Park, we didn’t stay long, there were lots of people and was not the area we expected it to be. We stopped at a couple of state parks down the road, but they weren’t what we were looking for either.
Once we got back on Highway 101 we drove up to Munson Creek Falls. Munson Creek drops down one of the most impressive waterfalls in Oregon’s Coast Range. The falls were for the longest time cited as dropping 266 feet in three tiers. Oregon State Parks, however, has cited the falls as 319 feet tall. Munson Creek Falls is presumably the tallest waterfall west of the Willamette Rivera and is encompassed in Munson Creek Falls State Park. The falls were named for Goran Munson, a settler from Michigan who homesteaded in 1889 near the falls. The trail into the falls was surrounded by lush ferns, bushes and trees, it is an easy walk and well worth the view.
On our way back to the RV park, in a pasture along side 101 we saw dozens of elk settling down for the night, mostly cows with a few bulls. Across the road in another pasture were more elk, they were farther from the road and were not as visible.
Sunday, August 05, 2007
We went to the Blue Heron French Cheese and Wine Co and Tillamook Cheese Factory today. We sampled and purchased cheese, wine and goodies at Blue Heron, everything we tried there was excellent. The Tillamook Factory was crowded with long lines for samples, food and goodies so we did not stay. We were at the TCF years ago when the crowds were smaller and lines shorter.
Glad we drove the Three Cape Loop yesterday, today it is overcast a little windy, and the temps are around 70.