Tolovana Beach and south 15 Feb 2015

I headed south on the 101 with the intention of hiking along the beach in the vicinity of Cannon Beach with my focus being Hug Point.  It was such a beautiful day and a holiday to boot, so I thought I had better start with the northern most parking wayside.  It was bursting!.  I did eventually get a spot and started walking south from the parking lot.  Beautiful!  I walked over 2.5 miles but my destination was still a ways off and it was getting late.  Low tide was at 5p and sunset at 5:40p and I knew that after low tide had passed, I would not get around Hug Point without getting wet.  So I turned back and partly ran the route.  Then I drove south.  Hug Point photos are in the next entry.

Tolovana Beach map

Beach life at low tide

Looking north to Haystack Rock

Silver Point and Jockey Cap

ripples

Jockey Cap

Lion Rock