The winds are continuing to blow here. The flags at the entrance to the campground are taut as the wind blows in from the ocean. By noon, a good portion of the campground had emptied and Highway 101 was jammed. The holiday is over and it's time to move on.
After work, we moved on, too. Our next stop is Cannon Beach. Oregon needs to do some serious work on some of the sections of Highway 101 between Lincoln City and Cannon Beach. There were several stretches where the road was very narrow and rough. Worse yet, we would suddenly come upon sections of pavement that were cracked and tilted in all kinds of weird directions. Motorhomes don't handle uneven pavement well at all. It starts rocking and things get exciting very quickly.
The Cannon Beach RV Resort is one of the nicer private campgrounds we've stayed in. The entire campground is shaded, so it feels more like a National Forest campground than private. It's either been here a long time to establish the trees and been kept up very well, or they bought a great piece of land.
As soon as we got set up and cleaned up, we drove to Ecola State Park
for the classic view of Haystack Rock and Cannon Beach. It was a beautiful day and no wind. The tide was coming in when we arrived,
so there were lots of small waves breaking to add contrast to the ocean. One of the pine trees died that used to
provide the perfect framing for the classic shot of Cannon Beach, but I found new places as I walked along the path
to the headland. From the headland, we could see "Tilly" the Tillamook Lighthouse.
It lies a couple miles offshore all by itself on a rock. We have seen photos of waves crashing against the rock
that were taller than the lighthouse.
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We stayed and shot sunset at Ecola, but the shots when we first arrived were probably the best. A giant fog bank obscured the sunset, so we didn't get the magic light we anticipated. As we walked back to the car, Carol noticed two elk cows in a grass area on the fringe of the forest. It was pretty dark, but we cranked up the ISO of our cameras and shot anyway. They have Roosevelt elk here. They have this weird patch of hair growing down from their neck. I don't remember other elk having anything like it.
We stopped at the Lumberyard Restaurant on the way back to camp. It was after 10:00, so we were glad to find something open. It was not only open, but the food was good.
The GPS took us back to camp, and I went to bed. I didn't even last long enough to upload my images to my laptop.
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