Thursday turned out to be quite the day. We left Umpqua, and headed up to the Sea Lion Caves. It wasn’t amazing, but still cool to see all the sea lions. It was a bit of a tourist trap. The sea lions can get very loud, and they are also very huge. That stop didn’t last too long.

I wanted to see more of a rocky beach, so we made a random stop at a place called Devil’s Churn. It was this big skinny ravine that filled up with water at high tide. We went and hiked by it, and ended up getting a little too close (although we were still several feet away from the edge) and the sea water splashed us. Once just mostly Joe, and then it came up right after that and got both of us. It looked like there been some cool tide pools too, but we were there at high tide, so no luck there.

We went to the Oregon Coast Aquarium. It’s a neat aquarium, and we actually spent quite a bit of time there. Joe like the sea otters and jellyfish quite a bit. After the aquarium we went and camped at Nehalem Bay State Park. It was a cool place–the beach was a two minute walk away. I could hear the waves from our campsite. The entire drive up there, it started to get overcast and look scarily like rain, but it didn’t start until after we had dinner, put up camp, and played at the beach a little. We did end up going to bed quite early when it did start raining.