Today, I am driving from Vancouver to Manzanita, Oregon. I will be Yurt camping for four days at Nehalem Bay State Park. I have camped here many times. I will post photos and comments when I return on next Thursday afternoon. I expect rain, wind, fog, and cool weather. Likely to see very few campers in this fine park.
Here is my post from January 2022 from Nehalem Bay:
This park is quite large with a long sandy beach, sand dunes, shore pine forest, bay views, and many hiking, biking, and horseback riding trails and roads. The park is over 4 miles long.
There are 310 campsites in this Park. There were only 10 trailers/RV campers, no tent campers, and 3 yurt campers. Thus, the Park was 95% empty of any campers this cold rainy winter day. I enjoy the privacy, the quiet, the solitude.
Fog, drizzling, misting, low clouds, cold, light rain ...
Today, I plan to drive through Manzanita, Nehalem, Wheeler, Rockaway Beach and Garibaldi. I will stop at many places in these areas.
I walked around Barview Jetty County Park near Garibaldi. Crews were working on the north jetty entrance to Tillamook Bay.
I visited Manhattan Beach Wayside Oregon State Park.
I walked on a wood boardwalk through a swamp old growth cedar forest near Rockaway Beach, and along the beach and bay.
I ate at the Big Wave restaurant in Manzanita twice: halibut fish tacos for lunch, and pan-fried razor clams for dinner... both were excellent!
Plenty of restaurants, gift shops, services, library, market, and cafes in Manzanita and Rockaway Beach were open. Nice homes in Manzanita.
What to Do at Night?
Sunrise at 8 am and sunset at 5 pm. 15 hours of Darkness. [Photography at night?]
Reading books, cellphone Kindle, and writing on my ASUS laptop. Reading comfortably at night in my yurt:
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans. By Cynthia Barnett. W.W. Norton, 2021, 432 pages. VSCL.
Nehalem Bay and Manzanita Local Information
Nehalem Bay State Park Images Google Map
Nehalem Bay State Park Wikipedia
Manzanita City Population 400. Motels, restaurants, cafes, grocery, gas, supplies. Images
Manzanita Restaurants "You can enjoy a farm-to-table experience at several local restaurants;A Mighty Thai, Big Wave Cafe, Bread & Ocean, and Neahkahnie Bistro just to name a few. Each serves seasonal, regional items year-round. The area also features more conventional food offerings, including pizza, Mexican cuisine, casual fine dining, pies, pastries, contemporary and old-fashioned candy, ice cream and seafood."
Have a Great Time at the Beach
Neahkahnie Mountain Hiking trails to peak.
Neahkahnie Mountain "This peak is an inspiring place, where the Tillamook tribe believed their most powerful god resided. In fact, the name Neahkahnie comes from their words Ne ("place of") and Ekahnie {Ekone] ("supreme deity")."
Four Days in Grayland By Michael P. Garofalo. Camping and travel adventures in the Pacific Northwest.
Nehalem Valley Historical Society Museum in Manzanita
Nehalem City Population 400. Cafes, grocery, gas, supplies. Images
Nehalem River 116 miles long. Images
Nehalem Bay Area Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center in Wheeler
Oswald West State Park Wikipedia
Lower Columbia River: Astoria to Portland, Ilwaco to Vancouver
Wheeler Population 400. Images Cafes, grocery, gas, supplies.
I have camped in a Yurt at Nehalem Bay State Park five times in the last two decades.
Yurt Camping in the Coastal Northwest By Michael P. Garofalo
Nehalem Spit Trail
Fishing, crabbing, walking beach dunes and shore, kite flying, river side exploring, mountain trails hiking, kayaking.
Rockaway Beach Population 1,400. Images Google Map
Rockaway Beach Old Growth Cedar Preserve Raised boardwalk trail, 1.1 mile, into old growth cedar forest. Bog and forest.
Rockaway Big Tree Boardwalk Includes the largest cedar tree in Oregon.
Bar View Jetty Beach Walk
Rockaway Beach Travel Travel II
Motels, restaurants, cafes, grocery, gas, supplies.
The following photographs were obtained from the Internet:
Lake Lytle, Rockaway Beach
Manzanita Beach
Nehalem Bay
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