Newport to California

Daddy is on Tsunami watch - our hotel was right on the ocean - it was beautiful to walk along in the morning - a little chilly though
This is a picture of a place called Devil's Churn - we hiked down and the rocks were formed from a volcanic eruption - the waves crashed and it was beautiful to watch - Daddy took a video of it that we can watch when we get home.

This is a picture of a whale - hard to tell but we saw water from it's blowhole a couple of times - too hard to capture with the camera - there are about 60 gray whales that live around this coast area - Daddy was super excited.
We also saw these seals laying on the rocks - there were so many cool things to see when the tide is out - we saw anemones, starfish and mussels stuck to rocks - there were small crabs in pools that were left - we took pictures of these too and we will show them to you when we get home.

This picture was taken inside the Sea Lion Caves in Florence Oregon. It was a long way down to get into the cave - during high tide the caves are full of water. We took and elevator down 208 feet and it really smelled very bad and they were very noisy - still cool to see. Mommy was very excited to get back up above the caves.

As we were driving the sun came out for such a short time but it was incredible to see the ocean with the sun shining on it.


Our campsite in California had a petting zoo! Daddy took the picture of the goat - it really wanted Daddy to pet it but he was not going to.

We drove into Crescent City and went out see Battery Point Lighthouse - you can only get to it during low tide. We thought this was as low as it got but when we were coming back it was a lot drier. I found this blob of something on ocean floor and thought it was amazing - it was solid but was wet at the same time - I really wanted to find someone to ask about it - the only people around were some kids that worked at McDonalds - they had lived by the ocean all their lives - the lady there told me it was a type of jellyfish - apparently they don't all have stingers but it wasn't healthy for me to keep holding it so I had to through it out. I am going to look it up on the internet to make sure they weren't just making it up.


The alleged jellyfish - it releases neuro toxins that are not healthy for your brain and eventually my hands would have gone numb. I think it's really cool if it really was a jellyfish


Daddy beside one of the giant trees in the Redwood forest. We slept under these trees - they were so tall - and it rained on us all night but I think the trees kept most of the rain off of us.


Mommy and Daddy inside the trunk of a Redwood tree that is 1600 years old.