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A popular beach when the weather is warm offers chances to explore the nearby cliffs and take a tunnel to a rocky area of the beach. It's common for creatures like starfish, sea urchins, and anemone to be visible at low tide.
Oceanside Beach State Recreation Site is a state park in the U.S. state of Oregon. Administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, the park is open to the public and is fee-free. Amenities at the site, in the unincorporated community of Oceanside, include picnicking, wildlife watching, fishing, windsurfing, and kite flying. It is not uncommon to see paraglider pilots land at the beach on Southwest wind days during the fall, winter and spring. Beachcombing is popular in summer, and agate hunting is best in winter, when ocean currents remove sand. Oceanside is about 11 miles (18 km) west of Tillamook off U.S. Route 101.
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also known locally as Agate Beach or Hundred Step Beach
Bayocean was once a planned luxury resort town that fell into the sea in the 1920s due to erosion when the Tillamook Bay Jetty was completed. What remains is a pristine 5-mile beachfront along the spit that encloses Tillamook Bay. Directly adjacent to the village of Cape Meares (although the shortcut to Oceanside over the Cape itself has been closed due to storm damage).
The Tillamook Creamery Visitor's Center is the center of the prime dairy area of Oregon. Interactive exhibits describe the cheesemaking process, and visitors can see the process unfold through the glass windows. Samples of their various products are available, including cheddar cheese curds. And of course, there's ice cream... forty flavors of them.