Written October 2018
Day 1
So on Friday night, we got the car all packed up and ready to go, so that the only thing we would need to do in the morning was just pack and cooler and head out. We left at around 7am on Saturday morning…eating breakfast on the way. It was pretty much smooth sailing the whole way down, and we made it to the campgrounds at 10:15.
Unfortunately, the sign at the entrance said the campground was full…but we decided to go in and check it out anyways. Thankfully…it wasn’t…and there were still 4 sites available. Some of them were pretty lame though, and were pretty much just a patch of grass right next to the road. We got lucky though, and there was a family just leaving a huge campsite…and so 29a was going to be our home for the next day! Another perk of our site was that we could get right onto one of the trails directly from out site, just by walking across a fallen tree! (Although, this also let people see directly into our campsite as well…)
Campsite 29A
After we finished getting all settled with our campsite, we had a quick lunch, eating the steak burritos that we had made the previous night and packed for ourselves. Nothing special…but enough to fuel us for some hiking. We decided to start out to hiking over to the Visitor’s Center, just about 3/4 mile way, to get a better idea of the landscape and figure out where all we wanted to go for the day.
We decided to start of the day by hiking up the St. Perpetua Trail, so that we could see the “Best View of the Oregon Coast”. It wasn’t a long hike…about 1.5 miles one way, but it was a decent climb which got our heartrates up and quads some burn. It did wind up being a really nice view up at the top though. Up top, there was a small loop called the Whispering Spruce Trail, where there was a stone shelter built back in the 1930s.
“Best View of the Oregon Coast”
From there, we made our way back down, and back onto the main trail, past our campsite to check out the Giant Spruce. It was pretty tall…and old…but what I found to be the neatest thing about it was the hole in the middle of the tree which you could crawl into to hang out inside the tree.
To the Giant Spruce
After a couple hours of rest at the campsite, we made our way back past the Visitor Center, and out to the Coastline to check out high tide. We decided to go out to Devil’s Churn first prior to high tide, just to get a sense of what the area was like since we were planning on going there early the next morning.
Walk out to the churn
Rocky Shoreline
Devil’s Churn
Once we were churned out, we made our way over to the main section of the coast where the Thor’s Well, Spouting Horn, Cook’s Chasm, and the tide pools were. While we were lucky enough to avoid any rain on the trip, it was pretty overcast…so unfortunately, there wasn’t a spectacular sunset in the background of Thor’s Well to be seen…but it was still cool to see the water getting sucked down and rising back up in the ‘well’. Spouting Horn was kind of a disappointment, as we expecting much more of a water spout to shoot up.
Thor’s Well
Cook’s Chasm
It was starting to get pretty cold and windy out there….and we were getting pretty hungry, so we decided to head back to the campsite. We fired up our logs to build a nice little campfire, and grilled up some tasty steaks for ourselves, with a nice side of fresh mangoes! And once the sun went down, we made a couple s’mores for a nightcap!
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