Once up and at it, I headed North towards Hug Point and Cannon Beach. Driving almost immediately past Manzanita, I decided to check out the beach there, having heard good things. The little town was lovely and the beach had quite a number of dogs running around on it, so I stopped and we had a short walk before continuing on to our destinations. Hug Point was absolutely beautiful, it has been my favourite beach so far, it’s nice and long, sandy and has many cool caves and a waterfall. It’s a bit busier than some of the beaches I have been to, but not overwhelmingly so (at least, not on a week day in March, even during spring break), but there were quite a few dogs off-leash, so I felt comfortable letting Luna off-leash despite there being people around. We walked a long ways South down the beach, then walked farther back the other way, checking out the caves and the waterfall on the North side of the beach. As we walked, I stayed in or near the water as usual and a big wave came up, sending water up to my knees, Luna had had her back turned when this happened, so when she turned around and saw me suddenly so deep in the water, a look of intense concern came over her face and she bolted out to me, then trotted back to shore, as if showing me the way to safety, despite being scared to go that deep in the water, what an incredible dog she is. We next headed to Cannon Beach to see Haystack Rock, this place was a little too crowded, so we did not spend long, Haystack Rock was pretty cool though, particularly with the plant life on top of it. Heading out, I drove past a Motel 6 in Seaside and decided to spend the night there, having almost no charge on my camera, phone or computer and very little driving time to charge them. By the time I decided to call it quits on the computer for the night, I had quite a bad migraine. With a cold cloth over my head to soothe my pounding headache and to block out the light of the smoke detector, I tried to get to sleep. Sometime after midnight, I gave up, the pain just kept getting worse and was getting hard to bear, so I went out to my car and got ibuprofen, tiger balm and melatonin which thankfully relieved enough of the pain and got me sleepy enough that I was out not too much later.
Hug Point
Wading in the ocean.
The fog rolled in while we were at Hug Point.
Luna seemed to think she was supposed to stay and pose there for a photo, even though I hadn't asked her too :)
Thousands!
This cave was full of these!
The famous Cannon Beach and Haystack Rock.
A family asked me to take their photo then offered to take ours. Ignore the woman squatting in the background. Haystack is to the right, just outside of the photo.
Haystack Rock.
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