Friday, April 06, 2007
April 6, 2007.
The event of the week - because the weather was good, Bob and Andrea took the day off. One of those “Well, it’s a nice day, I guess I must have a stomachache,” kind of days. And we all went to Ecola State Park. Ecola was originally spelled (by Lewis & Clark) Ekkoli. Ekkoli in the local parlance meant big beached whale. When I look at it today, as Ecola, it has become a crose between “e. coli” and “ebola”. Such a healthy place!
Ecola is near Cannon Beach, 2 hours away from home. It has wonderful rocks and tide pools. We got there about an hour after low tide, so the tide was coming in, but we still had opportunity to see starfish on the rocks, and sea anenome in the tide pools. Soren kept yelling at me that the tide was coming in and I’d better get out of there or I’d be cut off. Well, I made it home, as you can tell. Either that or the computer is waterproof, and I’ve joined Ariel.
After climbing on the rocks and poking at tide pools, I made Soren and Bob take a walk on the beach. I wanted to explore some more rocks. They looked cool from the distance, but as we approached, there wasn’t a lot of tide pool activity. Just the coolness. As the morning was very foggy, one has opportunity to wonder whether the rocks are really there.
We walked around a bit more, seeing more stuff (including a few arty things), and went to a great viewpoint where we tried to see whales and seals. Even with the binoculars, we had limited success. But Soren was able to fly a kite. After lunch, Soren still feeling punky, we decided to leave. So the sun finally came out, in time to accompany us on our return drive through rush hour traffic.
