The next day we drove down to Florence which is where the sand dunes start. The drive from where we were staying to Florence was about an hour and a drive that is "pure" Oregon Coast. It was full of beach view, rocky bluffs, a couple light houses and trees; it was awesome. On the way down to Florence we stopped at the Sea Lion Caves which was pretty cool; there were not any sea lions in the caves but was still a good educational trip.
In Florence we took a tour of the sand dunes on the "slow" dune buggy. It was an hour long tour and told us about the evasive grass growing on the dunes, who planted it and why they cant kill it. The tour went through various lookouts and then along the coast for awhile which was quite nice. As we were driving through one of the open areas some 40 year old skid with a grey mohawk was doing wheelies and stuff trying to show off and then he hit a bump and got bucked right off the quad and his awesome sun glasses and crap went flying as he went cruising over the handle bars. He staggered back up and collected his stuff, other than his helmet because he wasn't wearing one, and then jumped back on
again and proceeded to once again show us how cool he was; it was so funny seeing the guy go flying, even Cohen had a good laugh!
When on the slow tour we saw the "fast" dune buggy tour go by and Chelsey said "we are coming back tomorrow and doing that," so we did. We came back the next day and boy was it fun. I was personally scared shitless as we ripped around the dunes in this thing - flying up and down the dunes, whipping around at some pretty steep angles. I have a habit of thinking about "worst case scenarios" and trying to avoid them but by the looks on Chelsey and the kids face they were not thinking about that. All in all it was lots of fun and I do recommend it
Love that area - I could spend a month there anytime of the year!!
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