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Sunday 29th August 2004
Nehalem
Bay State Park to Seaside (Circle Creek Campground). Packed up and headed
for breakfast in Mazanita (Spanish for 'little apple' apparently). Another
place where breakfast at weekends is an institution - so had to wait a bit.
Eventually headed off along coast road, with a detour to Cannon Beach to
each lunch (which was all too soon after breakfast). Cannon beach is, of
course, so named because a British cannon washed up there way back, when
they were working out the relative merits of Oregon versus bits of Canada
and who should have which bits, etc. The shop where I bought lunch was a
bit of a curiosity - very very heavy rock was blaring out inside the shop
proclaiming death, destruction and the imminent apocalypse. When the shopkeeper,
who bore a resemblance to Thor [reddish hair and huge] said "is it a bit
loud?" I said "no but the singer could do with a throat pastille" (yes,
the old ones are the best aren't they?).The photo was taken from a headland
a bit before Cannon Beach, looking back over Nehalem Bay (that bit of blue
going inland in the distance). Got to Seaside, which is by the sea surprisingly
enough. There's only one campsite near Seaside it seems and that's the one
we went to. It's not cheap at 16 dollars for a basic campsite, without a
table (which costs a grand 3-4 dollars more). This campsite seems to be
making use of its monopoly position! We ate the cyclist's standby of an
all you can eat salad at Pizza Hut. The Hut was in a sad state - listless
staff and a general air of couldn't care much! Finally set up camp at the
site (after not realising that the campsite office was open, because it
had a big notice saying closed on it - it was really open and we should
have paid our fees immediately rather than proceeding to set up camp) and
fell asleep. Even Seaside's library was a bit tricky - I was pushed off
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