lighthouses and lemon-sun days

I saw my first lighthouse and touched a wild starfish this weekend!

Saturday was a "day-off" where us chicks just about watched movies and painted nails all day. Butter and I had to explain what a "chick-flick" is to Blueberry. I love explaining things to Bolivians.

BUT SUNDAY: We woke up early and headed towards the coast. I've now been officially assigned to shot-gun every field trip that Bug leads. Luckily this time I didn't have to worry about DJ-ing the radio - Bug brought two CD holders full of CD's from Willie Nelson to 90's hip-hop.

We headed towards Lincoln City first, the beach that was a typical "beach", lots of soft sand and coast. It was one of those rare, sunny days in Oregon; we hit it big. Next, we rolled down I-101 to Newport to visit Yaquina State Park. It was amazing, I was able to see my first lighthouse AND walk to the top. Plus, the beach at Yaquina is all cobble stones, perfectly round, smooth, black stones. We went down to the tide-pools, luckily arriving about 15 minutes before the high tide had fully came in. Tide pools are one of the coolest works of nature I have ever seen. I love love love tide pools. The ocean has so much life, so many creatures, and for a few hours every day we're able to peek under the covers of the ocean and see all the life teeming by the shore. I touched everything I could, and couldn't help but laughing out loud every time an anemone would grip my finger quickly when I touched it.

After Yaquina, we went into Newport and did some crabbing by the docks. I am now an experienced crabber now!

It was a great day, and we packed in every Oregon coast experience in every way that you can think of.

Side note: I'm sorry if the grammar in this post stinks, I'm pretty beat from a day of training that you'll eventually find out about. I know this wasn't very descriptive of my trip to the coast, but many photos are to come, I promise!