06 Jul 2013 Cannon Beach, OR
It is GREAT to see old
friends. We strolled into Cannon Beach,
OR by 10am on the 4th of July.
Our mission was to meet up with Eric and family at the Morris’ Fireside
Restaurant in the middle of town.
Summer’s parents (Eric’s wife) have
owned this restaurant since the 1976, and have been running it strong. All 6 of us sat around the table and had
breakfast talking about the past few years.
We were kindly put up at their awesome house filled with art and
antiques, a few short blocks away.
A big “must
do” in Cannon Beach is to see the tide pools surrounding Haystack Rock. This is a life area that is hidden until the
tide goes out and exposes the sea creatures that were just recently below the
water. You are bound to see many orange
and purple starfish and green and purple sea anemones. You have to know the tide tables to get out
there at the right time to see everything in full glory. The evening low tide was not very strong, but
the morning one was much stronger, and we decided to get up at 5:30 to catch
it. The last full day on the beach, I
went out to see the pools with Summer and Eric.
Let me say this, it was well worth the early AM wake up to see the
pools. There were no crowds and the bird
watchers were there set up with spotting scopes. We peered out onto baby seagulls and a puffin
nest. I had never seen anything like
that before. This was my first sighting of a puffin and it was extraordinary! What a beautiful bird. I will have to pass on the Viking delicacy of
eating puffin heart if the opportunity arises in the future. Tide pools.
See them!
The shenanigans at the Morris household
were insane. We had 2 year old Quin, 4
year old Teagan, 9 year old Keelie, and 12 year old Andrew for extreme
entertainment. The children all played
together well and were very polite. Good
work E Man and Summer!
The wild
blackberries are not quite ripe, but there are some salmon berries available,
if you are willing to search them out.
We got lucky a few times, but most of the time we came up empty handed.
When you find them, they are well worth the search. I kept telling Eric that the salmon berries
make me a faster runner, and his lack of finding salmon berries made him slow.
No matter what, he is still slow.
On our last
night in Cannon Beach, it was Summer’s mom’s birthday. We bought cupcakes and had a plan to surprise
her by carrying them around the house to the side deck with a sparkler instead
of candles. Andrew was carrying them
with two hands carefully, but the sparkler started shooting out white balls of
fire. One hit his arm and he dropped the
entire plate! Upon farther inspection,
we saw that the sparkler did burn his arm, and did it pretty bad. Katherine was running the camera and caught
the whole flop. We threw them all back
on the plate and still went out singing for Summer’s mom. It was still a success, but Andrew’s arm took
one for the team.
Cannon
Beach was a great stop along the coast or Oregon. It was even better to spend it there with
friends that we had not seen in a while.
The whole “Goonies” vibe was running the whole time on this strange
section of the coast. I hope to come
back sometime, but probably will not have the nice sunny weather that we were
lucky to have.
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