Vacation 2015, #19 - Sea Lion Caves, Florence Oregon

You would think with all of the 2015 posts lately that we haven't done a dang thing yet in 2016 with it nearly 2/3 over, but that would be an incorrect thought!

So, I figured I should probably get last years vacation finished up before this year is over.

That brings us to Sea Lion Caves, which has an address of Florence Oregon, but it's a bit North of there and almost straight West of Eugene.  It seems that somebody had an ambitious idea for tourists to build a building on the edge of the bluff, I suppose you would call it, and then from the basement of that building, construct an elevator shaft down thru the earth that will deposit it's passengers into the sea lions' cave.

And that's exactly what that ambitious person did!

So this is the where you find yourself once the elevator reaches the bottom.  It's dark, humid and mostly beautiful with lots of sea lions laying around on the rocks.

These two up against the cage so crazies can't crawl out onto the rocks with the sea lions.

Some of the varmints up close and at least one swimming.

Once we got back up top, we hiked down a fairly long trail to a "look-out" where you could look down at the ocean and there was a curve in the "bluff" where you could see piles upon piles of sea lions resting on the rocks.  This is some of them.

There were a few on this out-cropping too, but more birds than sea lions.

This is a goofy pic but I liked it since you can barely see the curvature of the earth in the upper right corner.

This pic was from Molly's camera.

This one as well, documenting the hike I spoke of several photos back.  That little reddish roof about center is the look-out point to see the sea lions on the rocks down by the water.  Hiking down wasn't so bad.  Hiking up?  A bit of a different story...

And so it was.  Another day in the books.  I think we camped later on this evening but I cannot be sure as I did not journal things as I should have...