Vacation Catch Up - Fort Stevens Park, OR

A gray and driftwood scattered coastline.

Before heading back to Seattle, we made one more stop along the Oregon coast on Highway 101.  Fort Steven's Park, by the mouth of the Columbia River, is the home of not only a lot of beautiful forrest, but also of a terrific coastline and the Peter Iredale shipwreck.


Peter Iredale Shipwreck


There isn't much left of the shipwreck from 1906, but it was interesting to see.  Apparently they were going to pull the ship back out to the ocean, but before the weather could clear it got lodged in the sand and stayed put.







Before we left I asked for us to stop along one of the park roadside so I could snap a few photos of the woods.  It was so green and amazing looking!







That's when I got about 6 mosquito bites in about three seconds...so I hopped back in the car as fast as possible! maybe next time I will bring along some repellent and we may actually have time to take a hike through the woods!

Our last stop at Fort Stevens was to the South Jetty by the Columbia River.