This post marks the beginning of our summer vacation. We have been living and working on the coast since early December and finished our assignments on June 25. We are not planning to work again until September. We spent our first week off camping and hiking on the coast. We didn’t have any reservations and no real itinerary. It should be no surprise that I had researched campgrounds and trails and had a list of potential locations. We headed north from Florence and decided to camp at Cape Lookout along the Three Capes Scenic Loop just south of Tillamook. The photos below are from the first section of this trip and include Cape Lookout, Cape Meares (Oregon’s shortest lighthouse), Netart’s Bay, and Garabaldi.