Almost 200years ago, Captain William Clark, Sacagawea and a small party from Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery climbed to the top of Tillamook Head near Cannon Beach.  Looking out over the Pacific and the crashing waves on sea stacks protruding from the ocean, Clark wrote in his journal, "from this point I beheld the grandest and most pleasing prospects which my eyes ever surveyed."  Perceptive man, that Captain Clark.

This is the third trip BBB and I have made to the Oregon Coast, but it was a "first" for Al & @li.  Ginny found a house for us in Seaside, and that's where we "hung out" for the four days.  We had gorgeous weather for our sojourn, and we spent as much time as possible walking on the beach and Seaside's oceanfront promenade.  My 39th birthday was May 16th, and the group surprised me with a cake (some of it slid off the tray and mated with my sweater).  My only regret is that we never had the opportunity to venture out to Haystack Rock during low tide.  Haystack Rock is the most famous landmark on the Oregon Coast.  It rises 235 feet above the shoreline at the water's edge.  At low tide, Haystack Rocks provides easy access to fascinating tidepools.  It's grassy covering provides nesting ground for tufted puffins, gulls, guillemots, cormorants, harlequin ducks, and black oystercatchers.

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