I began this cold day with a campfire. Then a walk on the forest trail to an ocean overlook. Then a short and quite lovely 11 mile drive to Tillamook for lunch at the Fern Restaurant.
I drove from Tillamook to Garibaldi and back. I drove from Tillamook to Pacific City and back. Lots to explore in the future in these coastal and valley areas, and up in the Tillamook State Forest. There are five rivers (Tillamook, Hoquarton, Wilson) that flow through the Tillamook Valley into Tillamook Bay.
"In its early years, the town of Tillamook, the first community to be settled in the county, bore the unofficial names Lincoln and Hoquarton, the latter believed to be an Indian name meaning “the landing.” Its name was eventually changed to Tillamook, an Indian word meaning “the many peoples of the Nehelim.” William Clark of explorers Lewis and Clark wrote in 1806 of the “Killamox” Indians but according to research by the Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes the “K” was not used in the name of the tribe. Local folklore used “Land of Many Waters” as the meaning of Tillamook. Though it is a fact that Tillamook is a land of many waters it is not the true meaning of the name Tillamook."
- History of Tillamook City Tillamook County Formed in 1853, and City Incorporated in 1891.
Here are some photographs by me from this Cape Lookout Trip:
Here are some images of this area found on the Internet:
features many high cliffs, steep hills, ravines, and mountains.
of the Three Capoes area. Mountains of Oregon
e.g, Neahkanie Mountain 4,500 feet
Tillamook City Population 5,300 Images On US 101 and Junction with Oregon Road 6 leading back east to Portland.
Motels, restaurants, cafes, gift shops, grocery,
banks, museums, dairy farms, lumber
industry, hospital, gas, stores, services, supplies.
The Tillamook area has many
dairy farms on green flat land east of the bay.
Tillamook Coast Visitors Guide
Tillamook Library Tillamook County Library System
Tillamook County Population 25,300 The City of Tillamook is the County Seat.
Tillamook Creamery Tours
Tillamook County Pioneer Museum
Blue Heron French Cheese Company
Northwest Coastal Oregon Travel Guide: Astoria to Cape Lookout. By Mike Garofalo.
Bayocean Development Failure Story
Tillamook Bay Shellfishing Clams and Crabs
Barview Jetty County Park Campground, picnic, hiking. At the north jetty to Tillamook Bay.
Oyster Farming in Tillamook Bay - A History
Tillamook Bay Environmental History
Port of Tillamook Bay Information, History
"The bay is protected from the open ocean by shoals and a 3 mi (5 km) sandbar called the Bayocean Peninsula. It is surrounded closely by the Coastal Range except at its southeast end, where the town of Tillamook sits near the mouths of the Kilchis, Wilson, Trask and Tillamook rivers, which flow quickly down from the surrounding timber-producing regions of the Coastal Range to converge at the bay. The short Miami River enters the north end of the bay. The small fishing village of Garibaldi sits near the cliffs opening of the bay in the ocean. The rivers that feed the bay are known for their prolific steelhead and salmon runs. The mixing of freshwater from the rivers with the ocean's saltwater makes the bay an estuary.
The name "Tillamook" is Coast
Salish word meaning "Land of Many Waters", probably referring to the rivers
that enter the bay. At the time of the arrival of Europeans,
the area along the coast was inhabited by the Tillamook and
other related Coast Salish tribes. Historians believe they entered the area
around the year 1400 and Lewis
and Clark estimated the population south of the Columbia
River along the coast at approximately 2,200."
- Tillamook Bay
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