Cannon Beach

Portland is close to various elements of nature. There are mountains to the east, deserts to the further east. Columbia river to the north. And the Ocean an hour and half to the west.

We've been here for almost six months. This is the first time we made it to the coast. Our destination was Cannon beach. In the city it was 80 degrees. Here on the beach it felt more like 60s with the wind. The water is freezing. This is not your typical beach where people sunbath. Although it's great for surfing.

haystack rocks

It's low-tide time of the day. You can find all kinds of good stuff that's left behind by the ocean water in the tide pools. The rocks were covered with barnacles and sea mussels. There were also big fat star fish, seaweeds and what looked like anemone.

The town of Cannon Beach is small and quaint. We ate lunch at Ecola Seafood, a family eatery, where you order food at the counter and bring food to the table yourself. There were four of us. So we got four fried fish and chip basket, cod, halibut, razor clam and oysters. They were very good, highly recommended.