We managed to hit the new and improved Tillamook Creamery twice that week. We also adventured and found the "Big Tree" of Rockaway. It was indeed a big tree.
The second to last day we were there, Greg and I took all the kids down to Nedonna Beach to look at tide pools down by the jetty. We didn't see many creatures (tide wasn't out far enough yet), but we did witness the rescue of a man whose boat capsized. A man on the beach thought he saw a boat flip over, and when we came up over the sand onto the beach, his wife saw I had a camera and asked if I could see better what was going on through my camera. He called the coast guard to report it while we continued looking through our cameras trying to see far out there. I had my longer lens on my camera, and we could see a man sitting on what looked like his overturned boat. A small fishing boat eventually got to him and pulled him into one of the boats, and then other rescue personnel and the coast guard came, too. It was nuts! A teacher/friend at East Orient was there at their beach house and watched the whole thing, too. She saw my FB post and texted me right away. She told me later that it took the Coast Guard a couple hours to retrieve the sunken boat.
Greg and Kari went for a 3 mile run on the beach, once we saw that the man was being rescued, and the other kids and I wandered down the beach to the jetty. It was a beautiful morning!
Grandpa got in on the boogie board action.
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