Oregon Coast Aquarium/Newport

I forgot to take my camera in so these are a few of Brad's pictures.
We were fortunate to be there for the feeding of the Sea Lions and
another time to see the otter's being feed. The workers feed the animals
3 times a day and while feeding the otters they told us they eat so many
times their weight- (which I forgot :( What I do remember is they said
it would be like us eating 100 quarter pounders or big mac's a day.
A you can imagine Brad really enjoyed this visit. They had a couple of
glass tunnel walk ways with benches you could sit and watch the fish swim
around you. One of the tunnels was all sharks - a little scary! There are so
many pictures of the under side of fish here, sorry. But maybe you get the
idea. I never saw a live halibut before - they are much bigger than I imagined.

Tillamook Cheese Company/Air Museum

Sorry these first two pictures are from postcards we bought.
I forgot to take my camera inside. The building was much
bigger than it appears. The viewing area upstairs was huge.
On the main level they had their store, resturant, gift shop,
and several ice cream lines. I think they make something like
30 flavors of ice cream. Of course we got our ole usual flavors
huckleberry and cookies and cream.

You can be sure this was one of Brad's favorite stops!! We visited

about an hour, of course Brad got lots of pictures. He made a haul

at their store - 4 new t-shirts and a hat. :) This hanger was used

during WW II to store a blimp.

Cape Fowlweather

This was a really fun stop. Oregon is so filled with dense foliage
and trees it is sometimes very hard to see the road signs for
attractions. Glad we darted in here! :)

This tells the history of Cape Fowlweather.......

This is looking south from the viewpoint. The grey condo's are

WorldMark at Depoe Bay. Brad had the binoculars out and found

three large groups of sea lions and otters as he followed those small

rocks in the water up to the large rocky shore. It was a beautiful spot!

Sea Lion Caves

The only way to see this group of sea lions was to pay admission to
the caves. This group wasn't in the cave, as you can see, they were
directly behind the building at the water's rocky edge

This was the beautiful turn out 1/4 mile before the Sea Lion Caves.
Your looking across at an historic lighthouse. The waters below
and the rocky water' edge were filled with sea lions. I said "who
needs to go to the cave now that we have seen all of these" but I am
glad Brad and I did. It was a cool experience.

This, of course, is the main entrance to the Caves. Brad and I went down

in an elevator 200 feet into the cave. It was an amazing place just filled

Sea Lions.

There were a number of pull outs on the highway to look for whales.

We were not lucky enough to see any.

The Redwoods

Most of the historic redwoods are in the "Land of the Giants"
off historic highway 101. Of course this is the well known
"drive-thru" tree. I miscalculated this days travel time. It took
much longer to get to the redwoods and our condo was more like
five hours south instead of two hours. oops! :( We didn't get to
our condo in Clear Lake until 11:00 pm.... Oh well, the drive was
beautiful and getting there from Lincoln City was filled with
one stop after another. Too many places to see and experience!

This picture is just to give you an idea of how large these trees

really are. This one was right next to the road. There were

areas to pull off and walk a shot distance to really big trees

The road going thru "Land of the Giants" was really good but narrow.

The trees came right to the roadway. They are so tall even with daylight

in among the tall trees it is still like night time. It was hard to get a

good picture, Sorry!

Clear Lake - California

Clear Lake is Wine Country. There a several Wine Tasting rooms.
This one is just outside Clear Lake city limits called Tulip Hill.



I'm afraid the background was too sunny to see the lake. You can
barely see the pier-they had a bench at the end of it and lots of
people were fishing from the pier too. You could even rent any kind of
boat at the pier. It was a beautiful spot.

At Clear Lake, our condo was on the bottom floor and our patio faced the lake.

We had a great view of the power boats, water skiers, and jet skis.

That would a condo be without animals to feed? Brad really enjoyed feeding

the ducks. He tried to get them to get it from his hand but this was about

as close as they would get.

Memorial Day Weekend 2010

Candace, Beau and the boys came home for Memorial Day weekend! Of course, it was the typical Idaho Memorial Day weekend with cold, windy, wet weather!! They arrived in Rexburg to a rainy downpour, dropped the boys off with grandma and hurried to the Rexburg Temple. This was their first time going through a session there. Candace was surprised to see several people she knew from Chester working there - even Aunt Deanna. They had a great session! : )

Saturday evening we fed the missionaries. Beau and Brad went to the theater to see Robin Hood and Candace, grandma and the boys went shopping in Rexburg. Sunday was church and a family dinner in Chester - Bryce, Shauna and their family came up too. Sunday evening we got into a fun game of pictionary. Candace had grandma as her handicap partner - hey, they even won some rounds!! Whoever get grandma is always the "handicap" team.

Here is our group picture at Warm River! The bread is gone and the little one's are getting a little fussy... time to head back home. It was fun while it lasted! : )

Here we are at Warm River to feed the fish! Grandma had saved some stale buns just for this occassion. The kids had fun until the bread ran out! : ( This is a special spot in the river, just to feed the fish - and there are some big one's here. Of course, there is no fishing allowed in this area. Many people return to this spot on a yearly basis - and have been doing so for 30-40-50 years!! There is another area up into Mack's Inn area called Big Springs that has a similar area to feed big fish. That is where several years ago we took Candace and Beau and intruded on a family of Moose feeding on th bottom of the water bed.