Day 4: June 25 Nehalem Bay State Park to Neskowin 66 miles

Thursday, 6/25/81
National Forest Service campground near Neskowin, OR

Nehalem Bay in the morning fog.

Misty in the morning (great pictures). Visited Tillamook Cheese Factory—mildly interesting. Lunch at Cape Lookout State Park—big climb. Sun came out 3:00—cutoffs. Explored Cape Kiwanda—fantastic geography. [I returned to Cape Kiwanda a couple of years ago. It is an official park now and it was crawling with people.] Took eight pictures, lots of fun. [For those of you who were not around before digital photography, if you didn't have money, you really had to consider every single shot, since you had to pay for the film and the photo processing] Neskowin grocery store burned down two months ago, so cold food for dinner—there's plenty. Lousy Forest Service campground. What there is has been ravaged by campers. Outhouses and picnic tables and huge mosquitoes.

A log in Nehalem Bay.

The Oregon coast can be difficult riding. It’s a series of bays and headlands and bays and headlands. Climbing over some of those headlands can be, as I found out, worse than crossing mountain ranges.

Nehalem River.

Cape Kiwanda

I was quite taken (blown away) with Cape Kiwanda.

It appears to be weathered sandstone and mudstone.

One of the most photogenic places I have ever seen.

Of course, my photos don't do it justice.

They were taken with a cheap camera on cheap film that faded over the years.

Then they were poorly scanned and Photoshopped.

South from Cape Lookout.

A fern in a tree branch above my campsite.