It was raining when we got up this morning and it rained most of the day with a few dry spells. We drove north to Tillamook and to Cape Meares. 101 is a narrow crooked and rough in spots road. Most of what we drove today would be hard in a big rig, however we saw several along the way.

The views along 101 are beautiful of the ocean and some of the huge rocks out in the water. We saw several fishermen fishing at the Salmon river as well as many out in the bays as well as a large boat out in the ocean. We saw some boats tending crab pots along the shore. On the shore, in the small towns are homes as high up the hills as you can get them. I am not sure how they get there by vehicle, but it looks difficult.

I had a malfunction with the computer and our photos we took today. Maybe better called operator error. I was deleting some photos that were not good and somehow the whole days photos dissapeared. I looked in the recycle bin and found them and restored them, but now I can not find them. I do not know where to look, other than Picassa where they are normally saved.

Anyway, they were not really good due to the rain and clouds being below us in some areas, but they were better than nothing. If I find them, I will share them and also, I will not delete them from the camera until I an sure I have everything I want.

We visited the Killamook Cheese factory and took the tour, ate lunch and had some ice cream, which was all delicious. We watched them make cheese, package it in 40lb chunks and send it to the warehouse to age and then watched it come out of the warehouse where it was cut and packaged in shrink wrap in various sizes and boxed ready for shipment.

The creamery is supplied by 20 dairys in the area and have been in business since 1909. It is certainly an impressive operation and make a lot of very tasty cheese.

Tomorrow it is off to McMinnville and the museum of the Spruce Goose.