Today was a traveling & sightseeing in the beautiful Oregon forests and scenic Pacific Coast Highway.  We made two significant stops, the Tillamook Cheese Factory and Ft. Clatsop at the Lewis & Clark National Historic Park.  The cheese tour and cheese & ice cream tasting was very, very, very good!  Ft. Clatsop was a unique historic experience for us.  We were immersed in the lives of the Corps of Discovery through their reconstructed winter home and the interpreters of the expedition. We can never get enough of the vistas along the Pacific Coast Highway.  We wish that we had the time to travel Highway 101 from beginning to end!



Fire tower...so important in Smokey the Bear's forests! 
This impressive Tillamook Forest was completely burned down
3 times...and has been totally restored through massive
planting efforts since 1959!

Suspension bridge over Wilson River at Tillamook Forest

Wilson River

Tillamook Cheese Factory tour...these are REALLY people working,
while we're staring down at them cutting the cheese.

View of Manhattan Beach, OR from the Pacific Coast Highway

Waves rolling in at Manhattan Beach

Pacific Ocean rolling in...with blackberries in front

Acadia Beach, PCH

Rocky coast of Oregon, above Manhattan Beach

Beautiful Oregon Coastline at Acadua Beach

Acadia  Beach...waves rolling in

Bronze statue featuring Lewis & Clark, Seaman (Lewis' Newfoundland Dog)

The Corps of Discovery's agenda for today...207 years ago!

Reconstruction of the original Ft. Clatsop, winter home to the
Corps of Discovery 1805-1806

Historic Interpreter, just inside Ft. Clatsop

Soldier's bunk area...3 rooms with 8 staying in each room.

Central fireplace in the men's quarters

Wooden chimney at Ft. Clatsop

The American Flag, flying over Ft. Clatsop

Captain William Clark's writing desk in the Captain's shared quarters.

Fireplace in the Captain's Quarters



Sacagawea, her husband, Charbonneau, and baby, Jean Baptiste (Pomp) had
their own room...this is their double bed.

Sacagawea's dress and Pomp's papoose board

Quill & ink demonstrator...WE DID IT!

Lewis & Clark National Wildlife Refuge...at the site where they camped,
and witnessed the sky turn black overhead, with the flocks of birds migrating

Lewis & Clark Wildlife Refuge