After 3329 miles of driving, today we made it to the Pacific ocean at Cannon Beach, Oregon! - What a great feeling as we came over the last mountain peak and the ocean came into view on the horizon. We couldn’t drive the car quite all the way to the water, but we did stop and walk the last quarter mile.
Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach
Before getting to the ocean today, we finished crossing most of Oregon yesterday via the routes along where the original historic Oregon Trail used by the pioneers went. Much of eastern Oregon was amazingly arid and desert like. Although as we got farther west, especially along the Columbia River valley things started getting greener and covered with the expected large pine trees. We found several really cool waterfalls coming down off the mountains into the valleys including the following one that was a few hundred feet high:
Horsetail Falls
Mt. Hood is still snow covered as is Mt. Adams and Mt. Saint Helens up in Washington. We didn’t know you would be able to see it, but Mt. Saint Helens is quite visible through the haze as you make your way up through the mountains between Portland and the Pacific Coast.
Mount St Helens
The rest of the pictures pretty much speak for themselves….
Columbia River Valley
Corvette over the Pacific
Sandra over the Pacific
Cape Lookout Oregon
Oregon Coastline
Devils Punchbowl
