Laninga's Travel Blog

After we left Florence we went to Lincoln City where we enjoyed the scenery and a nice waterfall hike. And we had some of the best Dungeness crab we’ve ever had at the Casino. To make up for it, we had a longish (and muddy) hike on Cape Lookout.

From Lincoln City we went to Seaside where we stayed at a Thousand Trails park. The scenery around here is just fantastic, as is the hiking. And of course, a visit to Astoria included the Maritime Museum (very interesting!) and of course Bowpickers Fish and Chips.

We hiked in Canon Beach, but the trails were too muddy so we turned back. But again the scenery made it wort its while. We did get a view of Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, also known as Terrible Tilly because of the really bad weather in this area. It was decommissioned in 1957 and is now privately owned… and used as a columbarian (place to store cremated remains).

Since we had so much rain, we went to Fort Stevens where the main trails were paved, much easier to navigate. But Fort Stevens was fascinating, first built during the Civil War and used during WWI and WWII. It was fired on by a Japanese submarine in 1942, marking the only time US soil had a direct attack.

Drift Creek Falls

Suspension Bridge over Drift Creek Falls

A bee hard at work

Looking SouthEast from Cape Lookout

Looking NorthEast from Cape Lookout

A little rough, a little muddy

Surfing near Canon City

One of the batteries at Fort Stevens

A view over the Fort Stevens bulkhead

Part of Fort Stevens, built during the Civil War

Standing by the Peter Iredale, shipwrecked in 1906

Very little left of the major cannery fire near Astoria

Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, aka “Terrible Tilly”

Posing near Canon Beach

Surf rolling in near Canon Beach

From the Acola Trail, near Canon beach

Haystack Rock, Canon Beach