2014 North Oregon Coast Trip - Part 2

Over the past couple of days we have continued to explore the area and for the most part have a good time. On Tuesday we went back to Seaside and strolled along the main drag and checked out the stores. The kids were pretty stoked to get some massive jaw breakers, go on a carousel ride and spend some time in the arcade called Funland. Oddly enough everyones favorite game was Deal or No Deal and I think the kids liked it so much as it provided the most amount of tickets which led to the candy prizes! Yesterday we strolled through downtown Astoria and went to the Maritime Museum which is awesome. Did you know that the mouth of Columbia is so dangerous that they send all the Coast Guard guys here for the extreme training, pretty cool eh. After hearing about how rough it is there my goal was so try and see what it was like and we were able to find a trail at Fort Stevens State Park that took us to the mouth, even on a calm day the waves were going everywhere - I would love to see this place in the winter! Anyways, pictures below...

This was a little inside carousel inside a tourist trap mall thingy magigy in Seaside

This kids love playing in the sand. This is the beach at Seaside again...

The next run of pictures is from the Maritime Museum in Astoria, super cool place and highly recommended. They showed a 3D movie and had some good interactive stuff for the kids and we got to go on a lightboat. 

Chelsey learning to tie knots...

This is the light boat Columbia. Back in the day they would use this as a lighthouse 7 miles out from the mouth of the Columbia because they couldnt put a lighthouse there (now they use Buoys). Anyways, 17 people would stay on this boat for 6 week shifts...unless the weather prohibited people from coming out for shift change.

I love Craft Beer and this whole are is littered with microbrews. We had lunch at Fort George Brewery and the beer was awesome and the food was damn good too!

Downtown Astoria is a pretty neat place, lots of old buildings, neat stores and lots of the garbage cans look light old cans of salmon.

At the end of the day we ventured to the mouth of the Columbia. It was pretty cool seeing the waves going in a million different directions (cant wait to storm watch here!) As we were driving along we came across a bunch of elk grabbing some dinner.

These pictures are from the lookout at the South Jetty...

And a campfire to end the night. Most nights we have been swimming and playing Beat the Parents which seems to be Cohen and Kyahs new favorite board game.