As far as beautiful scenery is concerned, the Oregon coast is up there with the best.  The coast offers a mixture of sandy beaches, dunes, rock formations,   rocky cliffs and forested hills.

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The blue of the sea really complements the blue of my plumage don't you think?

Pristine deserted beach

Near Florence, we found the Sea Lion Caves.  In order to get into the caves, we took and elevator down 280 feet into the largest Sea Lion caves in the world (according to Guinness)

Sea Lion Cave

This is home for the wild Steller Sea Lion, they live in and around the caves year round.

The bull can weigh up to 700 pounds and they bark  like dogs.

Sea lions on the rock, see the big bull?

They seemed a bit short-tempered and on top of barking really loudly at each other, they didn’t seem to mind having a good fight once in a while.

Sea Lion fighting

If you ever find yourself in Florence OR, don’t miss going to eat at the Waterfront Depot Restaurant, you will get out-of-this-world food for a very down-to-earth price.  We especially enjoyed the crab-encrusted halibut.  Reservations are highly recommended because it is very popular.

Best restaurant in Florence

Old Town Florence is a really cute shopping area, about two blocks of boutiques and restaurants.

Old Town

About 15 miles north of Florence we saw the Heceta Light House, built in 1894, its 0ne million candles beacon can be seen from 20 miles at sea.  It is claimed to be the most photographed lighthouse in the world, although we heard the same claim made about  the lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia, and if you ask me, Peggy’s Cove wins…  but that’s my humble opinion.

Heceta Lightouse

Wildlife is abundant on the Oregon Coast, it was the first time we saw Black Guillemots, really cute black and white bird with amazingly bright red feet.

Black Guillemot Sea Bird

We took advantage of the scenery and had a wonderful on-the-road breakfast by the sea 🙂

Breakfast with a view

This afternoon in the campground, I saw my first ever “in person”  beaver!

My first beaver encounter!