Sept. 7 - Monday - Looking back at Astoria and the bridges. The sun is promising to shine and the wind has abated so we are truly on our way. The Young's Bay Bridge was a breeze without the gale force winds from yesterday.
Headed west and so very glad that we had waited a day to start. In fact, we will say that about 20 times today.
This is Rich and Karlene. They are from New Hampshire and are doing a big Oregon loop beginning and ending in Portland. They got caught out in that deluge yesterday just east of Astoria.
Seaside - We were doing dueling cameras. The Amtrak bus driver had recommended an ice cream store named Zingers but it was before lunch and we didn't find it anyway. Ice cream will have to wait until later.
A very popular statue of Lewis and Clark.
Plenty of breeze for kite-flying.
We became quite familiar with this sign. It means we are going uphill!
Cannon Beach and lunch time - Furiously good food to improve your mood......except ours was already pretty darn good.......and they had nice outdoor seating to boot.
The iconic Haystack Rock
Life is good!
Oregon has done a very fine job of providing plenty of interpretive information at the many turnouts along the coast.
This Arch Cape Tunnel, one of 2 on the Oregon Coast route. It is also the scariest thing we have ever done on a bicycle. We've been through several tunnels but they were a bit shorter and flatter than this one. It is an uphill grade going south but what we really didn't count on was the noise. Even the smallest car's sound built until it sounded like a semi (or bigger) and it got so loud that we couldn't tell if the cars were behind us or in front of us.......it was very disorienting and made us realize how much information we normally gather with our ears.
We're still alive!! We had to stop just to let our arms stop shaking.
We played leaf frog with these 3 young women from Seattle several times going up Neahkahnie Mt., the last big hill of the day. They are also headed to San Francisco but will get there several days before we do at the rate they are going.
Looking down towards Nehalem Bay and the State Park where we plan to spend the night. We checked into the park then rode into Manzanita for pizza and to buy breakfast stuff. Back at the park we took a luxurious shower (free) and then headed to the beach.
It looks like we had the beach to ourselves but there were quite a few people out enjoying the mild, barely-windy-at-all evening on the beach.
Tom and Miriam, a couple from Portland that we met earlier in the hiker/biker campsite, took a picture for us.
Horseback riders from Vancouver, BC. They enjoyed having us take pictures of them and their steeds.
We watched the sunset as well as a father and his 3 sons playing hide and seek in these grassy hillocks just above the beach. They were having a grand time getting extremely sand-covered in the process.
All those brights spots in the background are other bikes. There were about 10 other cyclists camped here. One good thing about that is everyone is pretty tired so it's a fairly quiet, early-to-bed crowd.
We discovered that the computer is a lot easier to read in the dark than a book is!
46.1 miles today........89.5 total for the trip
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