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Cape Perpetua

The Cape Perpetua Scenic Area is part of the Siuslaw National Forest. It has 26 miles of hiking trails, the highest lookout on the Oregon coast that people can drive up to and ocean front tidal displays like Thor’s Well and the Spouting Horn (shown in earlier blogs).

An easy 2 mile round trip hike brings you to this giant Sitka spruce, the largest in the Cape Perpetua area. This tree is nearly 600 years old and started as a small seedling on top of a fallen tree, thus the raised trunk that allows these young ladies to sit comfortably inside.
A fallen tree on one of our hikes. We don’t grow trees this big back home.
A 4 mile round trip hike with 700 ft of elevation gain on the Saint Perpetua Trail goes to this stone structure that had its begins as a CCC project, became a WWII look out and is now open to the public. (It is also accessible by car, so a bit crowded.)
On clear days they say you can see 70 miles of coastline and 37 miles out to sea from the stone hut.
A quiet vista on the Saint Perpetua trail where we stopped for a snack. The views were amazing.
Western Trilliums were in full bloom. Please don’t pick them, each flower has been years in the making.

Tidbit: We hiked almost every trail at Cape Perpetua. They each offer something unique from water spouts to giant old growth trees to amazing vistas.

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Thor’s Well

Thor’s Well at Cape Perpetua is an amazing natural phenomena. We waited patiently for the tide to go out just enough so we could walk out and get this video. Somewhere far below the surface, the ocean sneaks in and out of this hole causing this really cool gem.

Tidbit: No shoes were dampened in the making of this video.