Beach Eating - Continuing the Summer Vacation Report

Rockaway Beach is a small coastal town on the Oregon Coast located between Seaside and Tillamook. It is one of many small towns along the north coast that are still simple, quiet and relatively undeveloped in terms of tourist attractions. But there are attractions. Foremost is the beach, uninterrupted for about five miles. Then there is the famous Tillamook Cheese Factory, a must stop on every visit to the cabin. Beside watching the process of cheese making, there is a great gift shop, a food market outlet for cheese and smoked meats from the Tillamook County Smoker, and great Tillamook ice cream. This is dairy country and these people know their cheese and ice cream.

Garibaldi, noted for the big "G" on the hillside, is a fishing port on Tillamook Bay. For us the big attraction there is the bakery. Our daughter Jill, skinny as a rail, waits all year for her visit to the beach and her chance to go to the bakery - every morning. By the third or fourth day others of us fall by the wayside, but she makes it there every day for her doughnut fix. A typical order for her is four different items. Her daughter, Irene, is more selective. She goes for the sprinkles, or as she calls them, the sparkles.

Every beach town has a candy store, and Rockaway is no exception. So many choices.

Of course, there may be no better eating than the s'mores cooked over the camp fire during an evening on the beach. You can be sure that more of the cheese and local wines and local produce and seafood and Tillamook ice cream made it back to the cabin kitchen for continued good eating. Bon appetit!