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SF, California, United States
About Me & My Family
I'm a mother
3 Kids 0-8 years old boys and girls
3 Kids 0-8 years old boys and girls
When we travel, good food and adventure always abound. Our family loves to push the limit of what we can do with children. Our mantra has always been - have kids, will travel. However, this doesn't mean I'm unlike most frantic moms before a trip. Wanting adventure and being a control freak can sometimes be a lethal combination.
Our Family's Travel Personality
adventurous, independent, spontaneous
We Just Got Back From
Northern California and Oregon
Our Favorite Vacation Spot
Hawaii
A Place We'd Love To Visit
New Zealand, Argetina, Brazil, Eastern Europe, Cambodia
Favorite Vacation Memory
Climbing Machu Picchu with a 4 month old infant in a slight and having all the locals stop us to ask what happened to his feet which were all bundled up. They just couldn't believe it wouldn't be bow legged.
Worst Travel Moment With My Kids:
Getting to the airport on our way to Scotland with my 15 month old and discovering that my husband's passport had expired. Instead of rebooking all of our flights, we decided that I would do the first leg of our journey on my own with baby. Unfortunately, we had not packed for me to be flying by myself. I could bearly walk to the runway with all my bags and a 15 month old who would get distracted by everything along the way. He then proceeded to sleep only 1 hour of the entire 11 hour journey (red-eye). It was pretty miserable.
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Kid-friendly Tide Pools in Oregon
Kids of all ages and adults alive find great fascination in discovering ocean critters in tide pools. It's a fun and free activity that can easily fill a couple of hours. All the way up and down the Oregon Coast, there are countless tide pools, but these are some of the most accessible or more healthy tide pools you'll find.
89814 Cape Arago Hwy
Coos Bay, Oregon
Comment:
A short walk down a flight of steps takes you to a small beach set in a protect cove filled with deep tide pools teaming with life. The tide can rush in quickly so keep watch on the time and try to arrive an hour before low tide.
reviewed on: March 14 2010
"Awesome tidepools and roses"
The beach at Shore Acres is some wonderful tide pools. Even for a family that lives near many wonderful CA beaches, we were pretty impressed with the tide pools here. The Shore Acres garden was also beautiful. We really loved walking through the beds and beds of rare roses. The kids had so much fun smelling all the different heavenly scents, excited to declare which ones were the favorites. Bring a picnic and enjoy it in the gardens or on the picnic benches near the parking lot. A little down the road, is a viewing platform from which you could can see tons of sea lions and seals.
Hwy 101, 2 miles north of Cannon Beach
Cannon Beach, Oregon
Comment:
Indian Beach at Ecola State Park has some wonderful tide pools. You'll see sea stars, hermit crabs, anemones, mussels, limpet and barnacles. You might even see sea urchins an chitons.
3400 S Hemlock St
Cannon Beach, Oregon
Comment:
Haystack Rock is located in Cannon Beach and has some of the best tide pools in the Northern Oregon Coast area. This is also a wonderful beach for bird watchers including adorable puffins. In addition a teeming variety of regular tide pool creatures, you might also find sea cucumbers and red rock crabs.
Hwy 101, south of Cannon Beach
Cannon Beach, Oregon
Comment:
In addition to the tide pools, your kids will love peering into sea caves and gazing at waterfalls at Hug Point.
750 NW Lighthouse Dr
Newport, Oregon
Comment:
Yaquina Head lives up to his name with outstanding tide pools along with rangers to help explain the various sea creatures. These are strangely enough made made tide pools that allow you to walk on concrete walkways and rocky areas to see pools of marine creatures.
