Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Yaquina, Devil’s Churn and Thor’s Well: Beach trip Day 2

The second day of our beach adventure started with Anton and Elina meeting up with us and a little trip to Yaquina Head. This is a very beautiful place with lots of great views and a lighthouse.

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The rocks there are home to many different animals, especially birds. We also got to see a group of harbor seals and a very large sea lion.

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Ivan and Terry had to head back after that to catch an airplane. The rest of us went further south to Cape Perpetua. We stopped first at Devil’s Churn, a narrow inlet that is a great place to see some crashing waves.

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Here is the view from the tip of the Churn. Watching the water inside you can really see where it got it’s name.

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Elina silhouetted by a wave: IMG_5867

This is also my favorite place to see tide pools. We had fun finding lots of animals including this sea urchin and some fan worms. Magnus thought the urchin was pretty cool and kept wanting to hold it.

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Next we went to Cook’s Chasm. Here you can find Thor’s Well, a collapsed cave that still has an opening to the ocean. This lets the water fill it up and often makes waves shoot out of it. It was very cool.

Here is Little Thor and his well:

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Also, this is the spot where you can sea the Sea Spout go off if the tide is high enough. We wanted to see it, but we had to wait:

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Eventually we did see it go off once before we had to leave:IMG_6080

We had a great time on the coast and it was fun to hang out with some family as well. Thanks Ivan and Terry for inviting us out there.

2 comments:

Diana said...

Ruth, I am jealous of all your fun trips you take! I loved your pictures of the coast - so beautiful! And Magnus is growing up!

Anonymous said...

I enjoyed this blog. I wondered how close you could get to Thor's Well. Thanks for posting your experience there. :)