Our last visit to Seaside this summer with a walk on the beach, a visit to the Rock Garden and beer sampling and food on the deck.
Visit to Seaside Oregon
Astoria Riverwalk
Doing a section of the Astoria Riverwalk.
Cannon Beach Outing
This time Lori, Jeanette and I were off to meet up with Sylvie at the Oregon coast to search for Puffins and have a small beerfest. After picking up Sylvie in Seaside we went down to Cannon Beach for a beach walk and to see the Tufted Puffins on Haystack Rock. Seeing a puffin in the wild had been on Jeanette’s bucked list for a while and she was not disappointed on this trip. After our windy walk we went back to where Sylvie was staying for beer tasting and munchies.
Mt. Rainier National Park
The plan was to go to Mt. Rainier National Park with Lori, Jeanette and Merlyn and hike around and see the wild flowers. What was not planned for was late snow melt, record setting hot day and altitude. We ended up with a short hike at Paradise with still some flowers and lovely views but still much covered in snow. We did a short visit to Paradise Lodge and headed off for lunch. Our second hike was to be at Longmire but did some stops on the way. By the time we got to Longmire the temperature was in the 90’s so we did a visit to and lodge and headed on. Even on food stop at Papa Bears was hot and did not go a planned. If it wasn’t for the fact that it was just so darn beautiful there it would have been a bad trip but seeing the majestic beauty of Mt. Rainier and the Tatoosh Range with good friends for a while makes it all good.
The Dallas Outing
This time I was off with Lori and Jeanette to a “cultural” outing to The Dallas. We have visited a number of different attractions in the Dallas before but had a few we had missed so far. This time we visited the remains of Lone Pine Tree Shaker Village , the Dallas Dam visitor center, the Fort Dallas Museum and Anderson house, and finished up at the Bargeway Pub for lunch.
