travels on the oregon coast-thurs.
Thursday was our last full day at the coast. We were due to fly home the next day at 5 which would allow us to visit Catherine in Ilwaco for another story hour, but that was it. It was supposed to rain Friday morning so we weren’t terribly bothered by not being able to visit the beach one more time.
Anyway that was in the future. This day, Thursday, we had planned on visiting Catherine at a story hour in Ocean Park which is the library farthest from Astoria. Ocean Park is a tiny community on the peninsula where Ilwaco and Long Beach are located. It is north of Long Beach a ways.
The town of Long Beach on the peninsula is so named because a beach runs the peninsula’s entire length some thirteen miles. In one of our conversations, Catherine told us she worried about tsunamis when she was working at Ocean Park because at that point on the peninsula there is no high ground to retreat to. In the event of a tsunami, she is dead. It’s an interesting thing to worry about since as I told her she’s much more likely to die in a car crash on her way to work than in a tsunami on one of the days she’s at Ocean Park. I’d like to be able to relate that my fatherly consolation erased all her worries and she thanked me profusely for my wisdom, but she responded to that wisdom with an eye roll she must have learned from her mother.
We journeyed to Ocean Park in the morning and watched Catherine in action.
After we left Ocean Park we found a beach access and admired the long beach.
When we returned to our condo in Seaside, we relaxed for a bit then took a long walk along the beach.
And that was that. We spent a last night at dinner with Catherine at a seafood restaurant in Seaside and returned home the next day after watching Catherine do her magic once more at story time. It was a truly enjoyable trip, one we will be duplicating in the spring.
