After I returned from my quick trip to Massachusetts on Saturday April 23, Patty had her first flying lesson on Sunday morning, April 24. After that, I took Ben and Martha to the airport for their week in Utah visiting friends, looking at the University of Utah and hoping to get in some visits to some national parks.
Patty has started classes to get her private pilot's license while we are in Portland, hoping to do so over the summer. Lessons 1, 2 and 3 were on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, April 24 -26. On Wednesday, Patty and I went on our first trip to the Oregon coast. It was about an hour and 45 minute drive to Ecola State Park. We parked in the large parking lot and then explored.
Crescent beach was to the south of the point we were at.
It was a windswept point that had views of the island where Tillamook Lighthouse had been (it is now a place for cremated human remains to be interred).
If you look closely, the next picture shows the light house, and the picture after that is one where I tried to use the zoom on my cellphone camera to get a better view of the light house.
We had a pleasant picnic lunch, with visits from several seagulls - it reminded both of us of our trips to Acadia National Park in Maine and my encounters with the seagulls there. We then took the trail north for about three quarters of a mile to where we had a better view of the lighthouse, but where the trail became very narrow with a precipitous drop off.
We headed back to our starting point and that is when I realized that one of the rock islands off shore had an arch through it.
We also found out that we were in cougar country and how to respond - similar to the warnings we had earlier in the month in Sequoia National Park about being in bear country.
Here are a couple of better shots showing the arch through the rock islet.
We then drove south a few miles, passed the town of Cannon Beach and stopped at Arcadia Beach State Park. We climbed down to the beach and spent an hour walking around on a virtually abandoned beach that had a half dozen homes on the cliffs looking down at us. We saw one that was listed for $2.5 million.
We then drove back north and through the town of Cannon Beach - it appears to be a great place to visit again, perhaps renting a space for a week or two. We got coffee and then drove back to Portland, arriving in time for a quiet dinner.
Thursday, I flew to Phoenix and had dinner with Anne and Shawn at their home, and got caught up with them. Then back to our condo where I greeted Bob and Marianne - they were in town for TJ's wedding. Friday, I did school work and a number of errands. Bob and Marianne went off to the wedding and I went off to the Desert Botanical Garden for a shift with the Bruce Munro exhibit. Saturday, I attended the annual faculty meeting at the Phoenix office of Wayland Baptist University. And then headed to the airport for flights to San Francisco and back to Portland late Saturday evening.
Patty has started classes to get her private pilot's license while we are in Portland, hoping to do so over the summer. Lessons 1, 2 and 3 were on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, April 24 -26. On Wednesday, Patty and I went on our first trip to the Oregon coast. It was about an hour and 45 minute drive to Ecola State Park. We parked in the large parking lot and then explored.
It was a windswept point that had views of the island where Tillamook Lighthouse had been (it is now a place for cremated human remains to be interred).
If you look closely, the next picture shows the light house, and the picture after that is one where I tried to use the zoom on my cellphone camera to get a better view of the light house.
We had a pleasant picnic lunch, with visits from several seagulls - it reminded both of us of our trips to Acadia National Park in Maine and my encounters with the seagulls there. We then took the trail north for about three quarters of a mile to where we had a better view of the lighthouse, but where the trail became very narrow with a precipitous drop off.
We headed back to our starting point and that is when I realized that one of the rock islands off shore had an arch through it.
We also found out that we were in cougar country and how to respond - similar to the warnings we had earlier in the month in Sequoia National Park about being in bear country.
Here are a couple of better shots showing the arch through the rock islet.
We then drove south a few miles, passed the town of Cannon Beach and stopped at Arcadia Beach State Park. We climbed down to the beach and spent an hour walking around on a virtually abandoned beach that had a half dozen homes on the cliffs looking down at us. We saw one that was listed for $2.5 million.
We then drove back north and through the town of Cannon Beach - it appears to be a great place to visit again, perhaps renting a space for a week or two. We got coffee and then drove back to Portland, arriving in time for a quiet dinner.
Thursday, I flew to Phoenix and had dinner with Anne and Shawn at their home, and got caught up with them. Then back to our condo where I greeted Bob and Marianne - they were in town for TJ's wedding. Friday, I did school work and a number of errands. Bob and Marianne went off to the wedding and I went off to the Desert Botanical Garden for a shift with the Bruce Munro exhibit. Saturday, I attended the annual faculty meeting at the Phoenix office of Wayland Baptist University. And then headed to the airport for flights to San Francisco and back to Portland late Saturday evening.
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