Next year, to celebrate Nehalem's 100th birthday, these brave little steamboats will be towed from all over the Northwest and congregate in Wheeler and Nehalem. If you live at Nehalem Point you'll have a front row seat. Or you can plan to join the river parade in your family flotilla. Or maybe you will have your own steamboat. It's all part of an interesting life around Nehalem Bay.
Picnics can happen anywhere, from meadow to mountain top or beachside.
Kites go sky high in the meadow, along the bay, or on the beach. Kite shops are everywhere. You can find simple colorful kites for a few hours of fun, or more sophisticated kites that are exquisitely engineered and acrobatic. Try your favorite on a line from a fisherman's spinning rod. Kite Festivals go on all summer in every little beach town on a Northwest coast.