A Day At Oceanside and Tillamook Forest Center in Photo

Since it was a beautiful sunny Sunday, we packed up the kids and the dogs and headed off on a trip to Tillamook, Oregon today. I thought I would just show some photos and shorten the narrative a bit. I’m going to try to tell about our day mostly in photos.

Our second stop (the first was the Tillamook Cheese Factory) was the beach at Oceanside, Oregon.

We found a few tide pools. The tide pool above contained quite a few sea anemones.

We also found a tide pool with a starfish. I like the way the camera makes little stars in the photo where the sun was reflecting off the water.

Our youngest found the largest bird egg I’ve ever seen in the wild. She found it up against the cliffs near the Oceanside Beach.

It was very windy at the beach, so we decided to head inland to find a nice swimming spot. We saw the signs for the Tillamook Forestry Center and we decided to check it out. The youngest and I climbed to the top of their outlook station and looked down on the center.

We found a wonderful swimming hole on the Wilson River. It was along one of the trails at the forestry center.

We saw a lot of Foxglove.

…the wild flowers were abundant…

…some of them you had to look close to find…

…others were so bright and beautiful, they were hard to miss.

As we were getting ready to go, I spotted a butterfly collecting nectar from the flowers. I stopped to take a few more photos.

It was a wonderful day. Oceanside is always nice, even on the windy days. I discovered a new place that I’m going to add to my favorite destinations, the Tillamook Forestry Center. We had a fantastic family outing.