Oregon Coast - Part I

From Portland, we drove through Beaverton heading towards the Beaches. I had read an article about Astoria in the New York Times, so I wanted to stop there first. We ate lunch at Fort George brewery which was recommended by Lizy's friend.





After lunch, we explored downtown Astoria by foot and wandered into this antique store.



Astoria is also best known as the town Goonies was filmed in, so references to the movie were found everywhere. We even stopped by the house where the main character lives.





The house has an amazing vantage point of the town, and we could hear sea lions on the piers barking, so we decided to investigate.





It was starting to get late in the afternoon and we wanted to get to Cannon Beach before sunset, so we took off and drove about 40 minutes south to the Inn at Cannon Beach where we were staying for two nights. From the Inn, we walked across the street to the beach and Haystack Rock to enjoy the sunset.





It was such a beautiful evening, photographers had flocked to the beach to capture the rock bathed in light at dusk.



We got a closer look at the creatures clinging to the rock at low tide.



As we returned to the Inn, rabbits had emerged from their hiding places to eat from small patches of grass. They were the biggest wild rabbits I had seen, unfortunately the light was too low to take photos of them. Once we got to the Inn, we ate granola for dinner and watched Goonies on DVD.

A good resource for the Oregon Coast is a publication called Coast Explorer.