Our Seaside, Oregon Vacation

This is the first lighthouse that we visited.  This one is called the North Head Lighthouse. 

This one is called Cape Disappointment Lighthouse. Its black horizontal stripe was added later to distinguish it from the North Head Lighthouse located just 2 miles north.

 

Picture taken from our balcony. 

We were going to go to the Portland Zoo, except that it began to rain and so we decided to check out the Portland Children's Museum. Chris and Nathan spent a bit of time building the track for the train.

In March of 2011 there was a tsunami in Japan. This piece of pier, measuring 66 feet long, 8 feet tall and  about 18 feet wide floated in on the tide early Tuesday, June 5th just north of Newport, Oregon at Agate Beach. We decided this was too cool not to go see. We arrived on Friday morning. By that time all the barnacles, metal side pieces and Japanese plaque had been removed. While we were there a newsman from NBC interviewed Jen and Nathan regarding what Nathan thought about it.

Jen, Vii and Nathan.

Sandy and Alan

Chris even climbed on top and took a few pictures. Shortly after we left the tide came back in and no one could get as close as we did for a while.

This is the Yaquina Head Lighthouse. It is located 3 miles north of Newport.

Sunset from our balcony.