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Sunday 29th August 2004

Near Cannon BeachNehalem 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 the computers all too soon.

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