2 Driving east from Astoria towards Warrenton and the KOA
3 Tuomas and Johanna swimming in the KOA pool
4 Our tents at the KOA (smaller one for Johanna and Tuomas)
5 Flying a kite at a beach in Fort Stevens State Park
6 Fort Stevens beach with wreck of the Peter Iredale in the background
7 Tuomas enjoying the surprisingly warm water
8 Tuomas floating his boat
9 Johanna building a "sand man"
10 Antti playing at the beach
11 Back in the tent at the KOA
12 Tuomas and Antti playing in the big tent
13 Looking south on the beach at Cape Lookout State Park - our second camp site
14 Cape Lookout State Park
15 Tuomas flying our biplane kite
16 Johanna flying a kite at Cape Lookout State Park
17 More kite flying
18 The beach at Cape Lookout State Park turned out to be ideal for flying a kite
19 Heading back to the campsite for dinner
20 Our tents at Cape Lookout State Park
21 Johanna and Tuomas resting in the tent
22 Tuomas borrowing Johanna's scooter
23 Cape Lookout State Park
24 Tillamook Air Museum. It is housed in a former U.S. Navy hangar for blimps that were used for anti-submarine coast patrol and convoy escort during WW II.
25 Johanna in the cockpit of an unknown airplane at the air museum
26 The PBY-5A Catalina
27 A Cessna 180 Skywagon, which was actually the first light aircraft on the North Pole
28 Johanna and Tuomas in an F-8J Crusader
29 Tuomas, Johanna and Antti in a helicopter
30 Douglas A-26 Invader
31 Douglas Commercial Three (DC-3)
32 Mini Guppy. During the early 1960s, Aero Space Lines ballooned the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser's fuselage into a whale-like shape to carry spacecraft sections, resulting in planes like this one.
33 Going for a visit at the Tillamook Cheese Factory
34 Inside the cheese factory
35 Back at the Cape Lookout State Park beach
36 This time we didn't fly kites and instead built sand castles
37 Johanna gathering some wet sand
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39 Tuomas and Johanna climbing up the dune
40 Antti playing in the sand
41 Johanna and Antti digging a hole
42 Roasting marshmallows for dessert
43 At the Cape Mears lighthouse
44 Cape Mears
45 View from the lighthouse
46 Our third campsite was at Beachside State Recreation area, a bit south of Waldport. The beach was enormous, but the winds were almost too strong for our kites.
47 Johanna flying a kite at the beach
48 Tuomas' turn
49 Dessert...
50 Johanna at the Newport aquarium
51 Our fourth campsite was at the very tranquil Sunset Bay State Park, just southeast of Coos Bay
52 At a beach close to Bandon, our southern-most point on the trip
53 Tuomas heading for a cliff he wants to climb
54 And there he goes...
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56 Looking for ice cream in Bandon
57 Bandon
58 The beach at Sunset Bay State Park
59 Tuomas and Antti climbing over the rocks at the Sunset Bay beach
60 Tuomas on his way back to our camp site
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64 The road from Sunset Bay State Park towards Coos Bay
65 Cape Arago barely visible in the background through the fog
66 Eating lunch at the dunes on our way back up north
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68 Antti on his way to play in the dunes
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70 Johanna
71 Tuomas recording Johanna's visit to the Oregon dunes
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75 A diversion from the coast to the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville to see the Spruce Goose
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77 One of my favorite planes in the museum: the Ford Tri-motor a.k.a. the "Tin Goose"
78 A look inside
79 Luggage stored inside the wing
80 Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress
81 Inside the B-17
82 Tuomas inside the B-17
83 Antti in the play area (note the red Cheeks - it was really hot in McMinnville)
84 A view of the museum from the second floor
85 The front of the Spruce Goose
86 Our final campsite at Nehalem Bay State Park
87 Playing in the dunes at Nehalem Bay
88 Our campsite
89 The airfield at Nehalem Bay State Park
90 Johanna enjoying the ice cream at the Tillamook cheese factory
91 Antti enjoying his ice cream
92 Tuomas eating orange ice cream!
93 Back at the campground Johanna reading a book to Tuomas
