Honeymooning

We spent our third anniversary in Seaside, Oregon. It was beautiful and fun for me to take Jonathan to some of the places that I had vacationed as a child.
On the way there, we drove a long way through Fort Stevens Park to find a place to park that had a short walk to the beach for dinner.


It was a little chilly though...


We brought tools for building sand castles but ended up spending most of the time playing in the tide pools.

We found larvae, sand shrimp, juvenile fish, snails and burrowing beasties. Very different than what we see on our rocky coast.

There were hundreds of these little crustaceans. This was one of the larger specimens. We discovered later that they were, appropriately, simply called sand crabs. Some of the larger specimens had beautifully colored eggs underneath the carapace.

This sign was hanging in the restaurant we went to for our anniversary dinner.


The weather got nicer as the week progressed. We were able to see the Peter Iredale (sort of-the tide wasn't the best) and fly kites to our hearts' content. There was no inclination for more immersion that wading, however.


There were more candy (especially taffy) stores than just about anything else. This one had it all, including exotic flavored malted milk balls, vintage candy and variously flavored chocolate covered twinkies.

Happy anniversary, dearling!