Well, the promenades are great and everything, but they are not the real reason people are coming to a oceanside resort. The real reason is the beach. Seaside has that in spades. (I wrote this and got wondering, how many spades of sand would this beach contain…) Anywhoo, our next gallery is about the Seaside beach.
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This is what in the television business is called "an establishing shot". It′s when they show you the location of a scene before the scene. So here we have a panorama shot of the whole of Seaside beach, from left to right, so you have no doubt that it is really a beach.What, still not convinced? Here′s a panorama video.This picture gives you a good impression of the length of the Seaside beach. From this point at the south end, it stretches north for almost 4 km. Those tall buildings? They are exactly midway.The south end of the Seaside beach is propped by the Tillamook Head. It′s a huge promontory, one of the biggest on the Oregon Coast. The Ecola State Park, which occupies the headland, has the area of 1,023 acres (414 ha).Tillamook is the name of a local indigenous people. They inhabited the lands south of this headland. It′s now Tillamook Country of Oregon State, with the largest city and the seat of the County also called Tillamook. The highest point of the Tillamook Head is the Clark′s Mountain. The rumor has it that William Clark (of the Lewis & Clark fame) hiked that mountain to see what′s around, when he travelled to the area from Fort Clatsop during their winter here. Clark visited this area to see a beached whale (only the skeleton was left by the time he got here). He left a note in his diary about this, recording the Clatsop people′s word for "whale" - E co-la. That′s how the State park got its name.So, we are confident that William Clark visited this beach, and maybe he even stood at this very spot. But we have no evidence of the fact that he climbed on top of the headland. But the mountain nevertheless bears his name.The Tillamook Head looks a little bit different when you get closer to it.The concavity of the beach at the Head′s base is called the Seaside Cove. Apparently, it′s a great place for surfing.The cove is quite different from the rest of the beach. It′s all pebbles here, instead of sand.The mountains in the back is the Oregon Coast Range, which stretches along the whole Oregon coastline.If we step a little back from the Tillamook Head, we get pretty much the whole length of the city into the picture.The central part of the Seaside beachfront, with all the big hotels. I bet, they are the tallest buildings in Seaside.Now looking southward.An endless empty sandy beach. My favorite type of an ocean retreat.Now, brace yourselves. Quite a few of the play-of-light-on-the-water images are coming your way.These shells of sea urchins are called "sand dollars", and they are one of the Oregon Coast things. Every guidebook will tell you that hunting these shells is a mandatory beach activity. Only, you won′t find any. All the good, undamaged shells will have been collected early in the morning by the local entrepreneurs, and then sold for $1 a shell to the tourists (1 dollar for a sand dollar, get it?). The shells shown here are broken on their other, convex, side, and these are the only ones you will be able to find.Seaside at night. And looking the other way, into the ocean. Believe it or not, this is not Photoshop. That′s exactly how the ocean looks at night, with the bright lights of the city behind reflected in the water. Press ESC to exit
