We found the Pacific!!

There is endless beauty that awaits on the Oregon coast, rock formations stand in the ocean, coast lines that stretch into the beyond, and clean crisp air. We started our highway 101 drive crossing over the Columbia River on the Astoris-Megler Bridge, seeing a sign about half way across reading, Welcome to Oregon. The bridge let us off in Astoria, the oldest settlement west of the Rockies. Down the coast we passed through popular beach vacation towns and and fisherman villages. Taking an alternate route, Three Capes Loop, we pulled over to watch two parasailers jump off the side of a cliff and sail to Cape Lookout beach below. Camping at Cape Lookout State Park, we took in our first Pacific Coast beach. The Oregon coast is known as, "The People's Beach," the public own the beaches of Oregon, not the state!! We built a fire on the beach, one night, as the sun set, and the next day, heading farther south, we came across a more secluded beach that allowed vehicles. We drove onto the beach to have lunch and ended up staying most of the afternoon reading and shell finding (my most beloved shells yet), colorful starfish lay at the water's edge. Sea lions lay out on the rocks at Cape Arago, and we spotted grey whale spouts off a coastal overlook. Put the Oregon Coast on your list of things to see in our America!!