Oregon Coast trip - Part 3

Wednesday morning all of us headed south to Cannon Beach to see the famous Haystack Rock from the movie "Goonies" where we saw some more sea life on the rocks and in the tide pools. Then the kids played in the sand and some, including my brothers Derek and Stillman did some boogie boarding. We didn't get to see them though because our little family was tired and ready to eat some lunch.  So we headed back toward the condo and stopped to get some food at Subway.  We brought Katie with us and the kids went swimming in the pools after we returned, except for Charlotte who took a nap.

Haystack Rock

Some rocks were just covered in muscles just like the ones we saw at Indian Beach on Monday.

See the pretty starfish? Three purples and two orange. So cool!

Garrett wading in the water.

The kids always love playing in the sand!

My brother Derek in the background getting ready to hit the waves with his boogie board. Dad, Mom, Grandma and Grandpa were camped out in their beach chairs watching all the fun.

Little Charlotte all tuckered out.  Gotta squeeze nap time in between all the fun activities!

Our next adventure for the day was walking down the sidewalk right on the beach to visit the Seaside Aquarium. Only half of the group went but we saw some other cool sea life we didn't get to see on the beaches.

Here's one of the sand creations we saw on the way to the aquarium. If you look close the back part says "SEASIDE" in smaller letters and the one in front says "OREGON". This one is just behind our condo.

Seals at the aquarium.

We had the opportunity to feed the seals also.  A couple of the seals finally learned that if they stood up and splashed one of their fins down several times that someone would keep throwing them fish.  And they were not trained to do that either. It was so fun to watch!

They had some sea creatures that you could touch and pick up. The girls loved it!

Charlotte pointing to all of the things she thought were neat. Not sure what she's pointing to in this shot.

It's getting to the point where I can't remember what we did unless I took a picture of it.  Some nights we played games, some nights we swam, and some nights we watched movies or whatever was on TV. This particular night I think was the night that we went over to Stillman and Colby's condo to watch "Goonies" in preparation for visiting Astoria the next day. Astoria is where that movie was filmed as well as "Kindergarten Cop". But that's another story :)

To Be Continued......