Anniversary Trip - Day 6

This was the day that we checked out of our cottage and started driving north.  We looked up a bunch of different things to stop and do on our way towards our next hotel. Our first stop was to eat breakfast.  We ate in Coos Bay and the food was pretty good.  

 We found a really fun little garden area pretty close to North Bend.  It was called The Darlingtonia Wayside. It is just a little trail that goes to the open garden area with bug eating plants.  They were pretty cool to look at.  I am not sure why I didn't take a picture of the actual plant, but I got Tony on the trail to go to the plants.  It'll be a great little stop to take the kiddos.

We then left that area to go find some more fun things to look at.  We stopped at a fun glass shop and looked at all their things.  They had a cool dragon out front.  We didn't buy anything from the shop, but it was interesting to look at.  

After shopping we found a fun place to stop to see these cool water inlet things that splash the water on the rocks as the waves comes in and out.  It was awesome how loud the water was when it crashed on the rocks.

After checking out that place we drove North some more and found another really cool ocean meets rock areas.  We parked our car and was able to walk to many different sites to see the awesomeness. Two were called Devils Churn and Cooks Chasm.  One of the rock formation had a big hole where the water would fill up and shoot out water when the waves came in and then it drained all the water as the waves went back out.  It was really fun to see and we watched that for a long time.  The tide started coming in so we decided to leave the area before we got all wet or stuck.  

Some of the sites we needed to hike to.  Those were not too bad and actually quite beautiful.  It was a little chilly but sunny.  We definitely want to do some of these things with the kids this upcoming summer.  

After all that excitement we drove to our hotel for the night.  We were able to stop by a Costco on our way to our hotel.  That is always fun.  We just ate some dinner there and that worked out good.  The hotel was in a really small college town, but it was a new nice hotel.  It was pretty cold there.  It made us realize that the hikes we had planned on taking the next day were also going to be very cold.  So we decided to cancel our next hotel in Burns and make a reservation closer to home in Boise.