Nature Day in Oregon!!

Yesterday was Nature Day in Oregon and as the resident naturalist I will be giving you the run down!

We began the day with a rousing game of disc golf on a local course. We managed to miss the 9th (and last) hole because it was hidden all the way on the other side of the park from the 8th hole, which is a hilarious way to make a golf course. The game is still ongoing...Adam is ahead by two strokes...
The drive up to Astoria was beautiful. We wanted to get to the coast to see the Pacific, but we missed all the beaches until the way back. Astoria is a city on a hill, located at the mouth of the Columbia River. It is also where the movie "the Goonies" was filmed, so we found the house from the movie!













We took a jog over to Washington state because we can. There we found a delightful place called Cape Disappointment. It was, in fact, disappointing. We wanted to find a place to sit, look at the waves of the ocean, and smoke our respective cigars and tobacco pipes whilst the sun set. Iconic. Cape Disappointment was not the place.

We had seen a potential location (conveniently called Sunset Beach) back near Seaside a few miles back down the coast from Astoria, so we loaded up and headed back. When we reached the beach we quickly realized this was not going to be the idyllic, brotastic scene we had pictured in our minds. The wind was blowing at 40 mph and the sand was painful as it nailed our legs, but Ponto persevered and dove in the pacific like a man. It was something to remember for sure.

Our final nature day nature break came on the way back. Adam saw something pretty and pulled the van off to take a picture. We found trails back into the woods and it gave us a real experience in the Northwestern wilderness. It was exactly what I wanted when I envisioned this trip. It was all I wanted and it was gorgeous. I will end this post with a sample of Oregon's best.