Chitwood Covered Bridge

On the our drive from Newport to Silver Falls State Park, there is a little town (more like street) called Chitwood and to get to it, you have to cross this covered bridge. It reminded me of the covered bridge from the movie Beetlejuice! Anyhow, it was really cool... we walked over it and it sure smelled like an old bridge too!

Silver Falls State Park

We went for a hike at Silver Falls State Park, it was amazing! There are 10 waterfalls at this park, we only had time (and energy) for 2 of the falls. We hiked to the South and North falls in the park (about 2 hours). The pictures just don't do the size of these falls justice.

The small line around the lower third of this picture is the trail, you can go right under the fall

South Falls, view from the top

Brian along the trail that goes in behind the falls, at parts you had to duck because the rock ceiling was so low

It was soaking wet under here... the mist was crazy

View looking back at the South Falls

At North Falls

Me at North Falls

There was a cliff right behind me, scary stuff!

View of North Falls

Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm

We stopped at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival after our hike at the falls. It was soooo hot out but so neat to see. I kept saying that Mom would have loved to see all this...

Brian had too much sun....

Perfect Pizza

This was totally worth mentioning... After getting settled in our hotel after a small amount of shopping at Woodburn Company Stores Outlet, we needed to get some dinner. Brian wanted Pizza so we drove around looking for a place we recognized. We ended up finding a place called "Perfect Pizza" and decided to give it a try. We walked into the empty pizza place and ended up talking with the owner the whole time we waited for our pizza. The owner had actually traveled through Canada helping install Quizno's franchises 20 years earlier and was so excited to talk to us about all the places he had been. Anyhow, it was really fun and the pizza was delicious!

Ecola State Park

When we got up this morning, we were going to go for a hike at Tillimook Head Trail. Google maps gave us horrible directions and we never found the trail head. After giving up, we continued on down the Coast Highway and came upon Ecola State Park... It was amazing! Just look at the views!

This beach was at another part of the park. We sat and watched the surfers, there were so many of them!

Cheese Please...

We stopped at the Tillamook Cheese factory on our way to Newport. It was alot bigger and busier than I expected. You get to do a self guided tour through glass watching workers on assembly lines packaging cheese... I dont think I could do that job with people staring at me all day... that was kind of weird. They also gave free samples of the cheese which was delicious.

I found paper in the gift shop made of cow poop...what will they think of next?

Yaquina Lighthouse

 We discovered this park in Newport when we were on our way to finding our hotel for the evening... Even though the tours closed at 4 (we were there around 7pm) it was still totally worth being there. The lighthouse was so cool and down on the beach below, there was an ocean discovery area. They had a park ranger there to tell you about the things you could find in the water. There was so much stuff to find too... it was really a fun evening at the beach!

I can't remember what these green things were!!

There were thousands of mussels

Starfish

Barnicles

Hermit Crabs

Mollusk