---
url: 'https://dri.es/album/cannon-beach-2024'
title: 'Cannon Beach 2024'
author:
  name: 'Dries Buytaert'
  url: 'https://dri.es/about'
date: '2026-06-11T15:09:14+00:00'
license: 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/'
type: album
count: 3
---

# Cannon Beach 2024

![Sunset at Cannon Beach, Oregon, showing the towering, rugged Haystack Rock standing in the water, surrounded by smaller sea stacks, flying birds, and people on the sandy beach.](https://dri.es/files/cache/cannon-beach-2024/haystack-rock-640w.jpg)
*Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach in Oregon.*

![Aurora borealis over the beach with campfires and people.](https://dri.es/files/cache/cannon-beach-2024/aurora-borealis-640w.jpg)
*Over the years, I traveled to Iceland, Sweden and Norway to see the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora">aurora borealis</a> but never succeeded. Then, last night, I saw it for the first time in Oregon, of all places.*

![View of rocky shoreline and sea stacks along the coast at Ecola State Park, Oregon.](https://dri.es/files/cache/cannon-beach-2024/ecola-state-park-640w.jpg)
*Hiked 5 miles \(8 kilometers\) along the Oregon coast in Ecola State Park, famous for its "sea stacks", or rock formations in the ocean.*