We drove north for 11 miles to visit the Sea Lion Caves, from the observation deck you look down to the Sea Lion Viewing area, a nice hike down, which we did. The folks at the Caves said some times you can spot a whale from this area, we did not.
Looking north from the deck you see Heceta Lighthouse, a circa-1894 lighthouse. We did not take the tour of this lighthouse, we got to the grounds too late the afternoon we tried to do it.
You go to the Sea Lion Caves for two reason, 1 to see the sea lions and two to see the caves, as you can see we saw the sea lions sunning themselves.
To me it is interesting to see that a basic sea animal can climb rock cliffs.
They say the caves attract nearly 150,000 tourists each year, now we can say we are a part of this years count. The caves were opened to the public in 1932, after a road was built along the coast. It is a short walk and an elevator ride to get to the caves. During mating and birthing seasons the caves are full of sea lions, we visited outside the time frame and were lucky to see as many sea lions as we did.
I hope you can read the sign.
Just in case you were like me wondering what the difference between a seal and a sea lion is.
We saw a lot of birds every time we were near the ocean, most were either sea gulls or cormorants.
Most of the time when you saw a "Sea Stack", Jo read some where that rocks pertruding out of the ocean were called sea stacks, anyway when you saw one you would most likely see Cormorants just like this.
I am a sucker for taking pictures when animals pose for me.
I usually let Jo take the sign photo's , some times I get weak.
Back up from the caves Jo was taking her photo of the Heceta Lighthouse, notice Jo had shed one layer of clothing, it was up-hill from the caves to here.
A general wide shot looking north from the deck towards the lighthouse showing the nice breaking waves, it was a nice clear day. If you are interested in more info on the caves go to www.sealioncaves.com. Hope you enjoyed
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