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9/1/26

Day 8, Thor's Well

Out of order pic at looking at the "symphony" part. When the water crashed against the rocks back in this little alcove, it made a HUGE loud sound that was very cool to listen to.

I had heard about Thor's Well and that it is just along side Hwy 101 on your way south. I didn't know if it would really live up to it's name and we were supposed to go at high tide, but then it ended up being low tide due to the whale watching getting moved, so I wasn't even sure there would be anything.

I was SO glad (tender mercy) we ended up going at low tide, because all those rocks you see us standing on would be basically almost covered with water at high tide and there is NO way I would have let my family walk out there.

It's just this huge opening that you can walk up to and when the waves come up (and this was at LOW TIDE!) it makes a huge splash. It was very cool.

More cool because you could get so close :)

Liam and the girls walked over to the far side, which made me too nervous so I didn't walk over there.

But proof I was there! Look at that cool bridge we got to cross!

Everyone looking at Thor's Well.

For a random little opening, it was definitely worth the stop.

Walking back over to the thunder part area which is just to the south of the actual Thor's Well.

Day 8, Depoe Bay whale watching

Out of order pic on the boat. Can you tell it was a little windy and foggy and cloudy and drizzly? ha ha

We had planned whale watching in Depoe Bay since SO many places had said this was the best place. But we had a little bit of time to wander around the town before our tour. Funny surfing big foot guy.

In front of the bay. The weather was SUPER foggy that day.

There was a nice shop owner that gave the girls some little amythest jewels.

The tour place we went to had just had tons of people return from a fishing trip and this guy could cut and fillet the fish like a crazy guy. He was amazing how fast he did it.

About ready to board our ship.

The whale watching tour ended up being very disappointing :( I know they don't have control over the weather but due to so low clouds and fog and drizzly weather, we didn't really get to see much of anything. Adeline was especially disappointed since this was the most thing she had been looking forward to on the whole trip. We did see a few sea lions, but not really any whales for the most part. The boat guys tried SO hard to find them, but the weather was just not great.

Oh well. We will have to try another time!

8/31/26

Day 7, continued, Newport, Walking to Arctic Circle for a treat

Because this is the trip of ice cream, when we got to our hotel in Newport after a busy day, we saw we were basically down the road from an Arctic Circle. Who knew they were in Oregon?

So after our hotel dinner of chicken sandwiches we walked for shakes and ice cream.

Walking down the main street of Newport.

Day 7, Pacific City beach

Out of order pic of Collin helping Adeline build something.

I met a woman at our airbnb at Seaside, that told me Pacific City beach is BY FAR the best beach to tide pool at.....so even though it wasn't originally in our plans, we decided to stop. Due to some other circumstances, we didn't get there quite as early for low tide as we had planned, so some of the tide had already started coming back in. But look at that sun! This was the first beach that felt "like a beach" in all of Oregon ha ha.

We thought about putting on our swimsuits, but then realized that would take a lot more time and the water was still absolutely freezing without a wet suit.