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Every year in June the town of Cannon Beach has a Sandcastle Building Contest. There are hundreds, if not thousands allowed to park on the beach for 6 hours to enjoy the competition. It was a perfect reason to go camping with friends and visit one of the best quilt shops on the Oregon Coast, The Center Diamond! If you ever get a chance to do a shop hop along the Oregon Coast, it is a beautiful drive and there are shops all along the way. Cannon Beach is nicknamed, Carmel by the Sea of Oregon, and it does live up to it's reputation with many wonderful shops and restaurants located right off the beach. I do love how each shop has their own flavor and the Center Diamond is like the cherry on the sundae.

The Sandcastle Building Contest is divided up into categories from Children to the Masters Division, with cash prizes. One of the challenges is how to get the water up to your designated area for construction. How this problem is solved is almost as interesting as the Sandcastles themselves. It is all wonderful but as you will see in the slide show...the really wondrous thing about Cannon Beach is the quilt shop! And, I know when you watch the slide show you will agree. We continue to meet up with quilters and hunt down new places to explore...I hope you will join us on the Quilt Roadies You Tube channel.

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