Day 5: Making Hay While..Nah.
It was still awfully rainy on Wednesday, but we decided we wanted to get out and hike anyway. There’s a short (3 miles roundtrip, but with 800 feet of elevation gain ) hike at the Cape Perpetua area from the Forest Service visitor’s center up to a whale-watching parapet. We felt this hike would be strenuous enough for a good workout, yet short enough that we wouldn’t die if we got rained on. Also, we hadn’t seen any of the grey whales that are migrating north this time of year, and this viewpoint gives a great panorama of a wide stretch of ocean.
As it happened, we got almost no rain on the hike, although you can see from the picture that it was never very far away. That virtual wall of water moved sedately from south to north, adroitly avoiding our little outing. We added on a two-mile jaunt back into the forest to visit a giant Sitka spruce that my wife loves to see. That’s where the picture of me reading Lolita was taken (Click to enlarge).
