Our next stop is...
Devil's Cauldron, about 3 minutes away.
It's an Overlook, & single most magnificent setting on the Oregon coast.
The Devils Cauldron view point is a cliff-backed cove just south of Short Sand Beach. The ocean swells, churns, and froth around a handful of sea stacks, including Cube Rock, making this a spectacular view on a fine day. The viewpoint can be reached by a semi-steep, rocky and often muddy trail, so wear appropriate footwear. Hike is only about 5 to 10 minutes each way.
Once there...be very careful at the overlooks, because there may not be railings, to keep you from falling 200 feet into the ocean. Pay attention to, and stay behind the DANGER signs, which warn you, "Do not go beyond this point".
People have died here trying to take selfies, and other reasons. The latest 2 were in 2020 and 2017.
Devil's Cauldron, about 3 minutes away.
It's an Overlook, & single most magnificent setting on the Oregon coast.
The Devils Cauldron view point is a cliff-backed cove just south of Short Sand Beach. The ocean swells, churns, and froth around a handful of sea stacks, including Cube Rock, making this a spectacular view on a fine day. The viewpoint can be reached by a semi-steep, rocky and often muddy trail, so wear appropriate footwear. Hike is only about 5 to 10 minutes each way.
Once there...be very careful at the overlooks, because there may not be railings, to keep you from falling 200 feet into the ocean. Pay attention to, and stay behind the DANGER signs, which warn you, "Do not go beyond this point".
People have died here trying to take selfies, and other reasons. The latest 2 were in 2020 and 2017.
Here, we are at Neahkahnie Mountain, as well:
"For scenic value, this section of highway is the equal of anything offered along the 400 miles of Oregon's coastline"
Neahkahnie Mountain is renowned for its views, and juts 1600 feet above the beach. Indians thought it a viewpoint fit for gods, and named it with the words Ne, (meaning “place of”) and Ekahni (“supreme deity”).
White men shroud the peak with legend as well. Treasure seekers sift the beach at the mountain’s base, spurred by tales of gold buried by sailors from a shipwrecked 17th century Spanish galleon, Santo Cristo de Burgos.
The discovery here of strangely inscribed blocks of beeswax, possibly of Spanish origin, adds to the speculation.
See beeswax podcasts.
On our return from Devil's Cauldron, we will hike a bit along the Neahkahnie Mountain Overlooks trail.
I'll show you the way.
We'll be at the 1st pull out, at Devil's Cauldron. Then after the Devil's Cauldron hike, you'll hike to the 5th pull out, for a variety of wonderful views. Hike only takes about 10 to 20 minutes and is easy. This engineering feat was the largest in Oregon, up to that time, in the 1930s.
I will meet you, will be waiting for you, at the 5th pull out.
See pictures.
See pictures.
Neahkahnie Mountain.
Whale watching here (mid December to mid January, & late February to May)
Bring the binoculars!
For hundreds of years, there were rumors of a shipwrecked treasure on the Oregon coast. But no one found anything, until Cameron La Follette began digging.
The story goes like this: Sometime around the year 1694, a ship wrecked near the foot of a mountain in Oregon. The area’s indigenous people named the peak knee-ah-kah-knee, “the place of the god”—a wide, tall mountain that appears to rise out of the Pacific Ocean like a giant climbing out of a bathtub. Its shoulders are cloaked in a dense forest of spruce and cedar, where elk find refuge in mists, and leave hoof prints, in the mud. For more than three centuries, the Nehalem-Tillamook people have told the tale of a ship that crashed there, a devastating collision of man and nature. Listen to the 1 hour audio in PODCASTS
Our next stop after Devil's Cauldron and knee-ah-kah-knee Mountain, will be, Hug Point.
"For scenic value, this section of highway is the equal of anything offered along the 400 miles of Oregon's coastline"
Neahkahnie Mountain is renowned for its views, and juts 1600 feet above the beach. Indians thought it a viewpoint fit for gods, and named it with the words Ne, (meaning “place of”) and Ekahni (“supreme deity”).
White men shroud the peak with legend as well. Treasure seekers sift the beach at the mountain’s base, spurred by tales of gold buried by sailors from a shipwrecked 17th century Spanish galleon, Santo Cristo de Burgos.
The discovery here of strangely inscribed blocks of beeswax, possibly of Spanish origin, adds to the speculation.
See beeswax podcasts.
On our return from Devil's Cauldron, we will hike a bit along the Neahkahnie Mountain Overlooks trail.
I'll show you the way.
We'll be at the 1st pull out, at Devil's Cauldron. Then after the Devil's Cauldron hike, you'll hike to the 5th pull out, for a variety of wonderful views. Hike only takes about 10 to 20 minutes and is easy. This engineering feat was the largest in Oregon, up to that time, in the 1930s.
I will meet you, will be waiting for you, at the 5th pull out.
See pictures.
See pictures.
Neahkahnie Mountain.
Whale watching here (mid December to mid January, & late February to May)
Bring the binoculars!
For hundreds of years, there were rumors of a shipwrecked treasure on the Oregon coast. But no one found anything, until Cameron La Follette began digging.
The story goes like this: Sometime around the year 1694, a ship wrecked near the foot of a mountain in Oregon. The area’s indigenous people named the peak knee-ah-kah-knee, “the place of the god”—a wide, tall mountain that appears to rise out of the Pacific Ocean like a giant climbing out of a bathtub. Its shoulders are cloaked in a dense forest of spruce and cedar, where elk find refuge in mists, and leave hoof prints, in the mud. For more than three centuries, the Nehalem-Tillamook people have told the tale of a ship that crashed there, a devastating collision of man and nature. Listen to the 1 hour audio in PODCASTS
Our next stop after Devil's Cauldron and knee-ah-kah-knee Mountain, will be, Hug Point.
