The view from Anderson’s Lookout on the way up Cape Lookout.
We thought about doing the Cape Trail, but the trail is known to be muddy when there has been rain, so we decided not to do it. Besides, we wanted to hike up the dune at Cape Kiwanda (Pacific City).
We rolled into Pacific City and Cape Kiwanda about 10:00ish. We changed out of our bike shoes and socks and grabbed our sandals. As soon as we started heading toward the dunes, it started to rain. We just kept going.
See the people? That’s the way we went too. It’s easier.
Last time, I didn’t go this way.
The view from that trail.
A couple of characters.
Now going up the steep part to the top
The view looking north.
Sure Foot heading down the sand cliff.
Watch out for the waves!
After our hike, we went over to the coffee shop/bakery, since by then it was “Bakery o’clock”. While we were eating our goodies, we saw Jessi and Hendrick go by. They saw our bikes outside, stopped and we waved to them. We would play leap frog with them a couple more times.
Jessi and Hendrick (at Beverly Beach).
We made our way up then down through Neskowin, and onto Slab Creek/old Hwy 101.
Heading up Slab Creek Rd.
Thought this was funny…
The climb up Cascade Head wasn’t too bad. Near the top, we were passed by two guys from Neskowin on road bikes. They were turning around at the top.
We got down to Otis. Since we hadn’t had anything since the bakery, we sat down on the stairs of the old restaurant that burned (they used to have good pie). Doug went around the building to pee. A guy across the highway started yelling, then he came across the highway with his two dogs. He told us there were sani-cans across the street at the gas station. I told him we didn’t want to cross the highway, then have to cross it again. Plus, we couldn’t see the sani-cans. He ranted about the crack heads and various other rotten people. I asked him if we looked like crack heads. He didn’t really have an answer for that. Then I turned on my charm, asked the names of his dogs (Tia and Bubba-whose real name is Sylvester), and generally sympathized with his problems (even though he doesn’t own any of the property where we were). In the end, he wished us safe travels. Jessi and Hendrick had caught up to us (they had pulled off in Neskowin). We chatted for awhile, then they took off, and we followed shortly after.
The ride into and through Lincoln City is not great. So much traffic! Once again we caught up to Jessi and Hendrick not too long before Depoe Bay. We saw them pulling out of Boiler Bay as we pulled in. We decided to have a snack break there I stead of waiting until Depoe Bay.
Boiler Bay
Ebony and Ivory…
We still stopped in Depoe Bay at the bridge.
Depoe Bay Bridge
Seal on the rocks below the bridge.
We finally made it to Otter Crest Loop which takes us off 101, and up toCape Foulweather.
Ben something bridge
Cape Foulweather house (it was closed)
After Foulweather, we came down to the turn to the Devil’s Punchbowl. Because it had been a long day, we decided not to go down to it. We were ready to be done, so we rode the last couple miles to Beverly Beach State Park. The guy we met at Cape Meares is here, plus a couple of gals hiking the Coast Trail. Of course Jessi and Hendrick are here too. This is probably the last night we’ll camp with them as they will go all the way to Florence tomorrow, and we are only going to Cape Perpetua.
We did 62.3 miles today and 3600 feet of elevation. Both are new records for Doug.
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