MORE CAPE PERPETUA
A beautiful day on the Oregon coast - sunshine mixed with some lovely breezes that whisper of Autumn with little leafstorms of the first drying leaves. We did some little hikes down to the Pacific (we missed the best times for the tidepools, so we'll do that another day) and then hiked 1.1 miles almost straight up, to the highest point for viewing the coastline in Oregon. You can see (on a clear day, which is what today most graciously was!) 37 miles of coastline. The elevation change is about 700 feet, so the hike was steep.

At the top (which you can also reach by driving up a road for 2 miles (right off Hwy 101), there is a nice wheelchair accessible trail that has great views, and leads to a CCC (We continue to be amazed and heartened by the outstanding effort the CCC workers - all made possible by government intervention/instigation - put in to create awesome trails and structures from which we can all benefit today, 80 years hence!). Top to bottom: CCC shelter, ocean view from trail before CCC shelter, view from inside CCC shelter looking southward along the coast.