Travel

Crater Lake

On our way down through Oregon, we spent a day exploring Crater Lake. Once a volcano, it has since collapsed and resulted in a very clear, deep and blue lake. Drove around the top, hiked to the bottom, and went cliff diving into the cold lake. Amazing sunsets afterwards as we drove into California for the night.

These trees have the most fluorescent moss

Watching the sunset over the hills with friends is the perfect way to end a great day.

Portland

Our first impression of Portland is that it is pretty weird. This opinion is based solely on the downtown area on a weekend. There are a lot of interesting characters wasting their afternoons away on a Sunday downtown. The industrial part of town was much nicer in my opinion. Many colourful walls and excellent branding is everywhere. 

Portland did, however, do an excellent job at leaving full grown trees left to grow in their downtown business district.

Cannon Beach

Today we left Seattle and took off to Portland. We made a couple stops along the way when we saw things worth visiting.

We took a little detour to Cannon Beach on our way to Portland. We could totally move here. The water was a little chilly but it didn't stop a couple of us. I had to look this up but the name of the rocks is 'Haystack Rock' and the smaller ones are called the 'Needles".