Oregon Coast part 2

For the remainder of the trip we walked around town and shopped at the quaint little shops and pigged out at the restaurants and ice cream shop (the kids really enjoyed ice cream cones on the beach). The resort was situated south of town and required a good 15 minute walk to get home. Our feet were all pretty sore by the time we dragged our tired rear ends home each night.

The third evening I wanted to try and get some sunset pictures and it turns out pretty much everyone else thought the same idea. It's quite something with the sunset colors and mist around the rocks. We did manage to get a good family picture thanks to Wesley's tripod.

The last full day we were there in Cannon Beach we decided to visit Ecola State Park which is a whopping 2 miles north of town. It was a Saturday and we were a little worried about lines so we got going fairly early (for us) and were at the park before 10. There were two main parking areas with two very different hiking options. The first parking area takes you to Indian Beach with an 8 mile hike and the second parking area takes you to Crescent Beach with a mile and a half hike. Indian Beach lot was full so we opted for Crescent Beach. It's not like we were going to hike 8 miles anyways (at least not with kids). Turned out the mile and a half hike was perfect. It took an hour and wasn't too difficult (there were a few areas that were steep). It opened up into the most beautiful secluded beach that was nearly empty. It was a wonderful day.

We brought a lunch and had a picnic at the top of the trail head that had the most beautiful post card like scenery. It really was something else to see.

It was lovely trip, I highly recommend seeing the Oregon coast.