Sea Lion Caves....Post Views 10,630

  My senior trip day started at 4:15AM  when I woke up and then got up at 5:30. It was still dark when I arrived at the senior center and part way through Portland.  

   The drive was about 4 hours to the southern coast of Oregon.  It went quickly since I sat next to a just-met new friend.  We knew from the start that this is a friendship meant to be.  

             
                   WHICH PAIR OF SHOES IS GRANDMA G?

       We drove through the Willamette Valley full of sheep farms, daffodils, geese, eagles, vineyards, grass farms (sod/not the other), rivers and distant mountain ranges.  It was eye candy to behold.  That is a way to describe it since none of my pictures turned out.    




GETTING CLOSE.......

Suisslaw River, Bridge and Sand Dunes...

 Southern Oregon Coast.....
Side view from restaurant .... 





Front view from restaurant.   

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              SEA LION CAVES, FLORENCE, OREGON

   200 FT. BELOW THE CLIFFS

(EARLY PICTURE OF SEA CAVES

 FROM WEBSITE)  

    The sea caves were discovered sometime in the 1800's by a fisherman in a small boat who rowed into the cave seeking protection from a storm.  He joined several sea lions already in there.    

   Tourists descend 200 ft by elevator and then walk a few more steps down to view the sea lions and the battering waves coming in.

Additional view from the caves......

Heceta Head Lighthouse....










      

     This has been a good "sea lions caves" day in the life of Grandma G.

     "How many are your works, O Lord!  In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number---living things both large and small."  (Psalms 104: 24 & 25)