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A cuddly pet- and family-friendly beauty that boasts a host of complimentary fun stuff like beach games, beach chairs and bikes for carousing around town on, among other things. Immaculate rooms - great sense of fun and quirkiness. Free wi-fi. There are also free movies. Small pet fee.

All rooms are immaculate and have TV’s, VCR’s and in-room phones w/ data ports. Oceanfronts have queen bed, a double hide-a-bed, kitchen, cozy firelog fireplace and private deck. Both types sleep up to four people. Others are appointed for a two-person romantic getaway, yet still perfect for those on a budget. Elaborate oceanfront Jacuzzi suite has two bedrooms, kitchen, double hide-a-bed, fireplace and private deck, sleeping as many as six. For family reunions or large gatherings such as weddings, some rooms can connect to create two-room and three-room suites. Some rooms pet friendly

Perfect for large family vacations all the way down to a getaway lodging for two - with over 25 vacation rental homes to choose from. A breathtaking collection of craftsman or traditional beachfront homes, or oceanview houses – from one to seven bedrooms. In various areas of Lincoln City and overlooking the beach, with some in Depoe Bay. All kinds of amenities are available, like hot tubs, decks, BBQ, rock fireplaces, beamed ceilings and more. Some are new, some are historic charmers.

Feed the seals! One of the oldest aquariums in the U.S. is here in Seaside, Oregon, right on the Promenade

Literally over 100 homes available as vacation rentals – all distinctive and carefully selected to be special. Find them in Yachats, Waldport, Newport, Nye Beach, Otter Rock, Depoe Bay, Gleneden Beach, Lincoln Beach, Lincoln City, Neskowin, Pacific City, Tierra Del Mar and Rockaway Beach. Some pet friendly.

Inn at Wecoma Lincoln City.  Sleek, modern design w some partial ocean views, balconies and fireplaces. Spacious guestrooms w/ microwave, refrigerator, coffeemaker, free continental breakfast.  Indoor pool and a hot tub. W-fi, fitness room, business center, and located within walking distance to finest restaurants. 867-sq-foot conference room for business meetings or large social events. Some pet friendly.

Suites, duplex units, houses for 2-8 people. Close to everything. All units w/ kitchens; many have fireplaces, decks, jetted tubs. Robes, slippers, luxury bath amenities and more. Award-winning flowers. Featured on Travel Channel.

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Lincoln City’s only resort hotel built right on the beach with all oceanfront rooms - nestled against a rugged cliffside overlooking a soft, sandy beach. Dine in penthouse restaurant and bar, for casual meal or candlelight dinner. An array of seafood specialties, juicy steaks and other Northwest favorites, including decadent Sunday buffet. Rooms range from bedrooms to studios to 1-bedroom suites with microwaves and refrigerators to full kitchens. Also, wi-fi, spa, saunas, exercise room and year-round heated swimming pool. Kids will love the game room and easy beach access. Full-service conference/meeting rooms for that inspirational retreat; extensive wedding possibilities.

Breathtaking high panoramic beach views from oceanfront rooms, spacious family suites & fully equipped cottages.  Known for gracious hospitality, the sparkling clean Sea Horse features a heated indoor pool, dramatic oceanfront spa, great whale watching, free deluxe continental breakfast, conference room, free casino shuttle & HBO.  Fireplaces, private decks and spas are available in select rooms.  Close to shops, golf, fishing & restaurants.  Pets are welcome in select rooms.  Senior discounts.  Kids 18 and under stay free in their parent's room.  Very attractive rates.

Pacific City, Oregon

A famous little family eatery where the seafood practically gets shuffled from the sea straight into your mouth. Soups and salads include many seafood specialties, including cioppino, chowders, crab Louie and cheese breads. Fish 'n' chips come w/ various fish. Seafood sandwiches with shrimp, tuna or crab, as well as burgers. Dinners like pan fried oysters, fillets of salmon or halibut, sautéed scallops.

 

 

Surreal North Oregon Coast Photo Adventures

Published 05/10/2010
By Oregon Coast Beach Connection staff

(Oregon Coast) – It's one of those glorious spring days on Oregon’s coast, with early May presenting plenty of puffy clouds – albeit slightly chilly and windy. Everything looks normal and average, on the surface. But these clouds, in turn, seem to bend and bounce the daylight in curious ways, as is often the case during spring in these watery parts. Things change drastically from moment to moment.

You often have to know what you're looking for to see it – and then the oddness of the situation will gleefully strike you over the head.

In a matter of a few hours, driving between Garibaldi and Seaside, sometimes back and forth between beach spots, the ethereal and strange poked their heads out through the stuff most people see on the beaches. And in between those moments, you seek out the oddities – and find some surreal results.

This day began in Manzanita, where the ocean was an unusual shade of blue. Around 5 p.m., the trek begins in Rockaway Beach, some 15 miles south, where the goal becomes shooting the renowned Twin Rocks and its unusual arch. But at this moment, those puffy clouds infuse the ocean with a strange kind of blue, and a close up of the waves and Twin Rocks shows the water taking on a kind of pastel. It looks somewhat unreal, even a bit like a cheap painting.

Then begins the search for a definite curiosity on the north coast. At Barview, between Rockaway Beach and Garibalid, there’s a big “B” painted onto a concrete slab on the side of a hill overlooking this tiny town of a few indistinct blocks. It’s Barview’s own rather low budget version of the massive “G” on the hillside above Garibaldi (which in itself seems like a low budget version of “Hollywood” above its borders).

So what is this extremely low-fi version of an already low budget version of self-promotion? We’re not really sure; none of the research we’ve done so far has revealed its origin.

You can’t see it from the highway: you have to meander down the road to the park at the jetty. On this day, however, there it is, in full, graffiti-like glory, but bathed in glorious sunshine.

Down the road, obese clouds, bright sunlight and bits of blue sky make for stunning contrasts on the part of Tillamook Bay where Garibaldi’s marina sits crammed with boats and docks.

From here, a quick pace is undertaken northward, back through Barview, Rockaway Beach, around the forested Nehalem Bay, Wheeler, Nehalem and then past Manzanita. Just above town, the overlooks present more enticing swashes of color and odd exercises in contrast. These overlooks, part of Neahkahnie Mountain, make for some of the best photographs and views along all the coast. You’re around 150 feet above the surf.

This time, it’s like a three-ring circus of funky sights, shadows and shades. On one side of the mountain, a massive expanse of pastel pinks is reflected – albeit subtly – in the bluish ocean below. A few degrees west, clouds break in random ways, allowing an ever-shifting collection of sunlight shafts to come pounding downward. These create shapeless islands of bright sunlight on the horizon, while the darker edges of those clouds block out all the light around the shafts – leaving nearly black ocean surrounding those fuzzy islands.

At one point, the constantly moving formations of bright and dark form an eye-catching symmetry with the trees of Neahkahnie.

One of the big goals of the day is to snag up-close shots of an odd structure just north of Manzanita called Cube Rock. Around Cape Falcon, between the surf Mecca of Short Sands Beach and the Neahkahnie overlooks, you can catch a distant glimpse of this hidden gem as it shyly pokes its head up above the cliffs.

If you see it from closer vantage points, it looks like a remnant of some ancient civilization, like some sort of stone column – although absolutely enormous.

Venturing down closer wasn’t an option this time, so the zoom lens was in order. This revealed some interesting geologic formations where it obviously broke off from the cliffs that hide it, perhaps a few millennia ago.

Later, the waning sunlight casts more wispy pastels on the ocean, and the cliffs and Cube Rock make for a nice shadow-based composition around those colors and the chaotic clouds.

A couple hours later, after 9 p.m., the sun has long descended, and the real fun experiments begin.

This new camera begs for all sorts of testing, including long exposures at night. Did you know if you left a camera on for about 15 seconds in Cannon Beach, a ways after sunset, you’ll get this surreal scene? Colors are all turned around. What looks like night sky to the naked eye becomes dusk to the camera, and the whole landscape looks a bit like infrared during daylight.

It’s remarkable. Irresistibly strange.

A half hour later, in serious dead of night, the experimentation begins in Seaside. But this town has so many lights trained on the beach the long exposures don’t work correctly. Luckily, the final stretch of Seaside’s beach before it hits the mouth of the Necanicum is bereft of lights, and only a hint of the yellowish lamps of the Prom tweak the colors of this session.

Again, more strange surprises lurk. Clouds turn into hazy, ghost-like chunks of the sky. A fishing boat in the distance creates an odd spray of color. It all looks quite dreamlike.

Sometimes the coast hands an adventure to you. Sometimes you create it for yourself.

 

 

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