Cannon Beach

Before leaving Seaside, we wanted to check out Cannon Beach, a short drive south down the coast. We had read that Tillamook Lighthouse was between Seaside and Cannon Beach - we had looked for it from Seaside beach, but did not see it, so decided to go to see if we could view the lighthouse from Cannon Beach (we first saw information about Tillamook Lighthouse at the Cannery museum at Pier 39 http://trekincartwrights.blogspot.com/2017/10/pier-39.html).

We found a parking spot near the beach and could see the rock with Tillamook lighthouse on it.

This is zoomed in on my phone...

Dwayne's camera with the long lens...

Long lens zoomed in!

It was a pretty beach with Ecola Creek bisecting it. There were lots of folks out on the beach and a number were wading in the creek (we had coats and hats and scarves on... they must be hardier souls than we are!).

Some of the birds in the area - it looks like the sea gull is saying, "You think you're somethin' special, don't you?!?!?"

Another sea gull

We were in an area a little above the beach in front of a hotel - The Waves

Some of the flowers in front of the rooms.

Some more of the flowers - they were very pretty!

There were some "interesting" fish sculptures on the end of a couple of the buildings...

Dwayne called them "dragonfish".

Note: regarding the Tillamook Lighthouse: we were talking about "Tillamook" and that there is a cheese by that name. We wondered if there was a town of Tillamook in Wisconsin (Wisconsin=cheese, right?) - but it turns out that a town of Tillamook exists just a little bit further down the coast of Oregon and the factory for Tillamook cheese is there - we passed through it on our way to South Beach, Oregon, where we are staying for two nights.