Spring Break: Tuesday

On Tuesday, we drove down to Sea Lion Caves. It was really awesome. We didn't get pictures in the cave (it was pretty dark and no flash photography allowed), but it was cooler in real life than in the pictures anyway. Before going down, we saw Heceta Head Lighthouse in the distance and watched a lot of sea lions in the water outside of the cave.

In the center of this picture, you can see a few sea lions in the water.

To get to the cave, you walked down quite a bit of stairs, then took an elevator. The elevator had a smell of dead fish, a small glimpse of what awaited us when the doors opened to the cave. Smell and all, it was totally awesome to view and listen to a cave of hundreds of sea lions, and birds, in their natural habitat.

Overlooking one of the water entrances to the cave. 

You could see lots of sea lions out there as they came and went from the cave.

We stopped in the gift shop for some sea lion key chains, a magnet, bath toys, and popcorn!

After Sea Lion Caves, we stopped at Devil's Churn State Park and went for a short hike. It was downhill quite steep to the ocean. Poor Dave got quite a workout on the way back up. Thanks, honey!

Audrey and I walked out to the tide pools.

One more stop on the way back to the condo- Beverly Beach! We camped at this State Park with the Smiths when Kimee was 11 months old.

We have a picture of Dave holding Kimee in front of this sign six years ago, so we thought we should take another one. My, how she has grown!

Audrey wouldn't get out of the stroller. Once we got to the beach, she was terrified because of her previous experience at Gleneden Beach. She cried the entire time until we got back to the car. Sorry to all the people that had to witness that. Kimee and Maddi still had fun, but it wasn't long enough.