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Cape Perpetua

  • Start date: 06/17/2018

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 06/17/2018

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Update: Three of us will be driving over the the coast so we have room for one more person to sign up. The focus will be the tidepools with minus tide of 1.5 at 10:44am. The early departure will give us time to park at the Visitors Center and to have time to explore as the tide goes out. I’ll check on possibility of a guided tour. We will also take the paved Trail of Restless Waters to see terraced tidepools and Devil’s Churn. Last will be the Whispering Spruce Trail 750 feet up to the 1934 rock viewing shelter. The Giant Spruce and a very late “2nd lunch ” at Luna Café in Yachats will be the driver’s choice. We will need a Northwest Forest Pass for each vehicle.

  • Event Leader: Janet Jacobsen

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-206-1251

  • Event Leader Email: jbjacobsen@comcast.net

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Coastal

  • Departure Location: Eugene Target, W11th, parking lot closest to W11th

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 158

  • Season: 2018

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Snacks, a lunch, water, appropriate clothing. Most important will be your shoes for walking and keeping balance on the slippery rocks in the tide pool area.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 5

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 900

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

We left Target at 7:00 and were at Cape Perpetua Visitor’s Center at 8:30 to meet our 5th hiker, Nancy White. That gave us two hours to explore the tide pools and rocks along Cape Cove Beach during the 1.5 minus tide. Red strawberries and yellow monkeyflowers decorated the cliffs. The first creatures spotted were the tree frog tadpoles in a fresh water splashpool. On the trail to Devil's Churn, Nancy pointed out an unusual fern, Polypodium scouleri, that grows on spruce trees close to the ocean. We watched the waves while we had lunch on the rocky beach before we headed back to the Visitor’s Center. With ambivalent enthusiasm, we decided to hike up the St. Perpetua Trail to the Rock Shelter where we were happy to have the best view on the coast. Before we headed back to Eugene, we drove a few miles north on Highway 101 to make a quick stop to see the Amanda Statue. Meg summed it up with “lovely weather, jolly hikers, and lots of wiggling creatures." Back in Eugene we thanked Kay, our driver, with ample enthusiasm.