We are now approaching Ecola State Park
With an old growth forest of Sitka Spruce.
Dramatic coastal views.
A beautiful beach.
And an abandoned lighthouse.
You will have 2 get out, and walk around stops.
At Ecola Point.
And at Indian Beach.
The views, from Ecola Point, will be in a few moments.
The view to the south, will illustrate the Oregon Coast’s geological past.
High mountains from lava flows emanating from the 'Columbia River Basalt Group' tower over the shoreline. They are continually uplifted by the sub ducting oceanic plate below, creating the coastal mountain range, and eroded away by the sea.
This subduction plate, slips, about every 3 to 500 years, causing a massive earthquake and tsunami. The last time it slipped, was on January 21st, in the year 1700. At that moment, a massive tsunami struck Japan. That was 322 years ago, so we are due, any time now.
You can also see Haystack Rock and Cannon Beach to the south, the furthest point for the Lewis & Clark party.
To the north, is Tillamook Head.
"From this point I be held the grandest and most pleasing prospects which my eyes ever surveyed".
Capt. Clark exclaimed from Tillamook Head.
From various vantage points you can see the migration of the gray whale, when 20,000 pass by here each winter and spring.
There's no trail to the beach from Ecola Point. So to get to the beach, we'll visit beautiful Indian Beach, a 5 minute drive. In fact, that beach is so beautiful, it was named the most beautiful place in the world in 2007, (by me), and, it was chosen as the filming location for at least 3 films: The Goonies, Point Break, and Twilight.
It was named by Lewis & Clark, who hiked through the Indian camp at the beach, on their way to view a beached whale at Cannon Beach.
And to the west, a little off shore, is a lighthouse.
The waters off the Oregon coast are said to be amongst the roughest and most dangerous in the world. Shipwrecks were so common that it became known as the Graveyard of the Pacific.
In time, it became apparent, at this spot, that an effective lifesaving measure would be the construction of a lighthouse.
The abandoned Tillamook Rock Lighthouse.
With an old growth forest of Sitka Spruce.
Dramatic coastal views.
A beautiful beach.
And an abandoned lighthouse.
You will have 2 get out, and walk around stops.
At Ecola Point.
And at Indian Beach.
The views, from Ecola Point, will be in a few moments.
The view to the south, will illustrate the Oregon Coast’s geological past.
High mountains from lava flows emanating from the 'Columbia River Basalt Group' tower over the shoreline. They are continually uplifted by the sub ducting oceanic plate below, creating the coastal mountain range, and eroded away by the sea.
This subduction plate, slips, about every 3 to 500 years, causing a massive earthquake and tsunami. The last time it slipped, was on January 21st, in the year 1700. At that moment, a massive tsunami struck Japan. That was 322 years ago, so we are due, any time now.
You can also see Haystack Rock and Cannon Beach to the south, the furthest point for the Lewis & Clark party.
To the north, is Tillamook Head.
"From this point I be held the grandest and most pleasing prospects which my eyes ever surveyed".
Capt. Clark exclaimed from Tillamook Head.
From various vantage points you can see the migration of the gray whale, when 20,000 pass by here each winter and spring.
There's no trail to the beach from Ecola Point. So to get to the beach, we'll visit beautiful Indian Beach, a 5 minute drive. In fact, that beach is so beautiful, it was named the most beautiful place in the world in 2007, (by me), and, it was chosen as the filming location for at least 3 films: The Goonies, Point Break, and Twilight.
It was named by Lewis & Clark, who hiked through the Indian camp at the beach, on their way to view a beached whale at Cannon Beach.
And to the west, a little off shore, is a lighthouse.
The waters off the Oregon coast are said to be amongst the roughest and most dangerous in the world. Shipwrecks were so common that it became known as the Graveyard of the Pacific.
In time, it became apparent, at this spot, that an effective lifesaving measure would be the construction of a lighthouse.
The abandoned Tillamook Rock Lighthouse.