Okay, let me start at the beginning. I  had a series of set backs in the family since Christmas and decided this particular morning to clear the air by taking advantage of a break in the weather. Vivy and I decided to take an early walk the beach and ended up at Netarts Bay which isn't far from Tillamook, OR., where we had been staying all that week settling family business; we had been down to Netarts once before for a walk, it has undescribable beauty, like a painting.  We arose real early, stopped for coffee in paper cups and with napkin covered sweet rolls in the other hand we started our walk.  It was misty after a rain, biting cold and windy but felt good to walk and forget the family troubles for awhile, I remember the ocean smelled wonderful mixed with the aroma of black coffee. It was real nice. 

We had been walking for maybe ten minutes when I looked up ahead of us in the direction that would be looking north and saw two dark figures off in the distance near the shore line. At first I thought, ohmygoodness, bears! As we got a bit closer, I motioned Vivy to slow down until I could see better and afraid we might cross paths with two bears, she is slightly hearing impaired.

At first I could make out a rounded back that was dark black, sort of hunched over and it appeared to be digging or moving something in the sand. Then it occurred to me there were no black bears around here that I knew about and at the same time, one of them stood upright.

We both stopped still there on the beach. One of the black figures was walking about, head looking down and the other was down on the sand, digging or that is what it looked like. Then the one on the ground appears to hand the one standing up something. Our presence was not yet noticed. We walked a bit closer and that is when the wife whispered, 'bigfoots, two little bigfoots.' With the roar of the ocean, wind & rain, one wouldn't think they could have heard her say that, but together the creatures looked in our direction as she spoke those words, maybe coincidence, maybe the wind carried the sound? They stood up side by side at that point and stared at us as if to assess the situation, or maybe they were surprised, it was then we could make out these guys were covered in a thick hair, black hair but much other detail was lost, it was beginning to rain again. Then both of them turned and walked away and in no time the figures were out of sight. By now the rain started up again with heavier drizzle and I wear glasses, visibility was not good even under my baseball cap. 

They were definitely bigfoots, not dressed people; they walked away upright like people do; one of them walking with some difficulty. We held our place there on the beach and watched them depart then walked towards the mound of sand where they had been digging and noticed some clam shells and a field of disturbed sand where they had been eating and tossing the shells.

To answer your question about height, it was hard to gauge the height of the creatures, there was nothing out there on the beach to compare but they were not as tall as we had heard about. In other words, not giants.  My guess is probably juveniles, young ones, two of them with black hair about their bodies, hands and feet, the face on the smaller one was not clear,  but the one that stood up first had a bare face skin, like a man of color, not hairy faced like you suggested. Crouching, they looked like bears, standing, they looked like young men and we decided male because we saw nothing to indicate female but I can't be sure, visibility was poor. It happened fast and we were surprised. The taller guy was thinner than the smaller one; he was quite chunky. Very odd sight.

I wasn't so nervous because a pair of bigfoots were in the vicinity, but nervous at that point that I would get blamed for the clam-digging mess on the beach that the two bigfoots had created and me with no shellfish license which you know is required by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and also we noticed many shells for which I knew was over any limit covered by a license.  Yeah, we were nervous at being in the midst of all this dug up beach with strewn shells and us with no license. I visualized newspaper headlines: "Old man digging clams without license blames bigfoot." Who would believe that?

I told my wife the situation and she said we better get out of there. We followed some of the tracks in the sand for a short distance and then I got weak in the knees. No guts. Vivy said she felt like we were being watched and I had visions of a game warden with binoculars watching us, it was then  we shot back to the car and took off. What a morning.

We stopped at the local pancake house eatery there in town to get warm again, have something hot and talk over the situation as to whether we should report the incident to Fish & Wildlife, we have not. This is because at the time, I was afraid of being accused of digging up the beach and the bigfoots as the excuse for not having a shellfish permit, who would believe that story?

A local fellow sitting at the table across from us that heard us talking to our waitress, she seem to know him.  He struck up a conversation as he got up to pay his bill and told us two days before we were there, two teenagers said there was 16 and 14 inch bigfoot tracks found all around on the trail down to the outer peninsula there at Netarts estuary. There is a long secluded stretch of beach there at the north end. 

I have written to other researchers but never heard back, so we will file another report with Bigfoot Encounters website and see if anyone is interested in this sighting. You asked if I noticed anything else, no we didn't and no, I didn't think to take measurements, we didn't go back there but I know both sets of feet were a bit longer than my size ten tennies and a whole bunch wider. We noticed nothing else, no stench and no audible noise, nothing else I can think of but by golly these creatures are real. Thanks for listening, this is a true story and we are glad you are interested. 

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