Tillamook Creamery

EVERYONE, and I mean EVERYONE, said if we were close we needed to go to the Tillamook Creamery on our trip. So planned that. It was a little bit of a drive out there, but it was very cool. Walking in, that place was a very busy place. 

Sorry, out of order pics, of one last chess game at Seaside before we left. 

A "few" of the zillions of shells we have collected so far. 

The Tillamook Creamery had this huge interactive area that explained all about their cows and the ownership of the company. It was VERY interesting. 

We have been on quite a few "tours" of food places and this one definitely is one of the top ones. They had so much information and things you could see and learn about. 

I was impressed how much the ownership belongs to the farmers now. 

These salt tubes were very hot. The salt goes super fast in there to push it to the cheese. 

One of the coolest parts of the tour is they had so many windows to look down on all the parts you were learning about. 

And all the workers were there doing exactly what the captions said they were doing so you really got to see what was happening "live" so to speak.

We got to try 6 year old cheese! It was pretty tasty. 

And we, along with a zillion other people, ate in the restaurant there. 

And of course we got ice cream. 

It was a very fun couple of hours there! Thanks Tillamook!
 

Day 6 continued, Cannon Beach

How is this for a little alcove on the main street. Oregon just knows how to make beauty in small places. 

This was our path walking out to Cannon Beach. Like a fairy tale.

And those hydrangeas again!

Heading to the bathroom ha ha. 

Can you get over these?!?!??!

It was definitely not the greatest of weather on Haystack Rock day :( This picture above was the best of the weather ha ha.

Haystack Rock is out there. 

We finally got a semi okay picture once we got super close. 

Several people had told me tide pooling at Haystack Rock is very good, but I admit we were a little disappointed. It may have been the blustery, drizzly weather, but we saw a few things but it wasn't amazing for us. 

We did see some cool starfish, but they had a lot of the really good stuff blocked off for birds and a migration issue so we couldn't go to a lot of the rocks sadly. 

I nicknamed this starfish rock. 

Evelyn wanted to point out the starfish that matched her haha.

Still can't get over the hydrangeas. 
 

Indian Beach tidepooling

The view of the rocks down on the far side of Indian Beach was very cool. 

We decided to walk over and go tide pooling, which our family has never done. 

We saw SO many cool creatures. 

There were several crabs that were really fun to watch scuttle around. 

Collin climbed up onto this huge rock. 

A very nice lady we met tide pooling took some cute family pictures of us.

And the sun came out as we were walking back!

Ryan and his giant stick ha ha.