Waldport

We went to Waldport once when I was in college (a little further down the coast). I was studying for finals at the time at OIMB and my family met me at a house we rented within driving distance to school. I don't remember a whole lot from that trip because I would play during the day and then study for my tests for hours after everyone went to sleep.

The few things I do remember were:

-Driving my mom to the rented house and stopping the car in the middle of a tunnel when she was trying to hold her breath.

-Finding a salmon shark on the beach, calling Eric and his friend Charlie (sleeping in) to tell them about it, and instead of walking down to see it, asking us to just "rip out a tooth please".

-Body boarding in the water hours after finding the salmon shark. Not feeling concerned.

-Watching Wheel of Fortune on the limited television channels during dinner.

-Walking through a weird swamp area to get to the beach - we were beachfront, what the hell?

-Learning that Waldport is a haven for blue agates.

Blue agates are super hard to find because with their dark color, they just look like plain rocks (hold them up to the light and you can see through them though). We started to make it the daily challenge to find a few. One day in Cape Kiwanda, we thought it would be fun to take a day trip down to Waldport, explore the small towns along the coast, and walk down the beach to look for blue agates again.

We stopped first at Depoe Bay to see whales, but we only found the fake kind:

Ate ice cream and gained a buddy (He may have been drunk):

Walking to the beach in Waldport - it was SO cold:

On the way back, we insisted the car be pulled over: