Belated Blogging -- Newport

 

 

As we have done several times in the past, we went to Newport on Memorial Day weekend to celebrate our anniversary (36 years on May 31, 2014). So here are some pictures of this year's trip: 

 Heceta Head Lighthouse from a long ways away.

 

Heceta Head Lighthouse zoomed in a little closer.

 

 

 Now we're standing next to the lighthouse, which was re-done about a year ago, so it's nice and pretty now.

We stayed at the LaQuinta of course. The manager is a friend so she offered us free tickets to the Oregon Coast Aquarium. We had been once, a couple of years ago, but we were excited to go again.

 

We really enjoyed walking through the "Passages of the Deep" exhibits where you walk through three different tunnels, representing 3 zones of the ocean, and the fish, including the sharks in this photo, are swimming all around you. The acrylic is about 4 inches thick, and many of the animals swim right up to it, so you can really get "up close and personal" with them.

 

 I've always loved seahorses -- not sure why. I spent a lot of time watching them glide through the water.

 

The puffins were fun to watch also.

 

 

We went to some more of our favorite spots: Cape Perpetua and the Yaquina Head Lighthouse. 

  

 

 

 

 

We (and a whole lot of other people) stayed past closing time at the Lighthouse to take photos of the sunset. I was sad when my camera battery died unexpectedly before the sun went all the way down, but when I saw that the few photos I had taken before the battery died had turned out pretty nice, I didn't feel too bad about the situation.