Oregon Coast (Central)

Lincoln City

Our Central Coast adventure started in Lincoln City. We stopped here to take a picture of the D River. It is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the shortest river. It's only 120 feet long, and connects Devil's Lake to the Pacific Ocean.

 Me and Bailey crossed the D River :)!

Otter Rock

 This is Devil's Punch Bowl. You can see where the water comes in the arch in the rock, and gets trapped where the big hole in the rock is. Then it just churns around in there until it can find it's way back out.

This is one of my favorite pictures from our vacation. It's of the Yaquina Head Lighthouse.

Newport

We spent the night in Newport, so we spent some time on the beach there.

Seal Rock

Seal Rock had a great tide pool spot. Bailey found EVERYTHING. She touched starfish, sea urchins, anemones, and crabs.

 A view of the Seal Rock area and tide pools.

 Bailey touched everything, and Sawyer wouldn't touch anything. He gets a little freaked out by the creepy crawlies of the ocean.

Yachats

Yachats is where the Cape Perpetua area is. This was a rough, rugged area of the coastline. 

This is Devil's Churn. There is a split in the rock that forms the coast. When the waves come in, the water goes up the split and spits out a spout at the end. It's supposed to be spectacular in winter and during storms.

 We drove up to an old WWII rock shelter that was used as a lookout. It had awesome views of the coastline.

We stopped at a place called Strawberry Hill State park. We read that it was a good place to spot whales. Sawyer wasn't even gonna get out of the car. Then we saw sea lions on the rocks, and it was low tide, so we realized we could walk right out to them. We got Sawyer and climbed over the rocks until all that separated us from them was about 30 feet of water. They were so cute! There were little baby gray ones too, and the mommas would pat them with their flippers. So sweet. I wanted to bring them all home!

 This one was especially cute! He kept peeking over the rock at us.

Along this part of the Coast is the Heceta Lighthouse. It's supposed to be the prettiest one on the Coast, but it was being renovated while we were there, so we saw it with a big black tarp over it. 

 The view from the lighthouse was beautiful though.

Then we stopped at Sea Lion Cave. It's the world's largest sea cave, and home to hundreds of Sea Lions. You can take an elevator down into the cave and view the Sea Lions. It was pretty cool!

 Sea Lion Cave

 During the spring and summer, the Sea Lions breed and have their babies out on this rock that's just outside the cave. There were TONS of them, and they didn't smell very good :)! 

 Here's a view from inside the cave. You couldn't use a flash inside, so it's hard to see. In the fall and winter, hundreds of them just hang out in the cave.

That concludes out Central Coast adventures!