While staying in Florence, OR, we drove up the coast to see two landmarks.

One is “Thors Well”, a rock formation that looks like a well hole right at the waters edge in a very rocky area. As the tide gets higher, water would rush into the well from the hole beneath and erupt into the air like a geyser!  And, when the tide gets even higher and flows over the rock above it drains into the hole like a sinkhole. There’s a walkway leading to the cliff edge with a viewing platform, and stairs going down to the rocky area where lots of people walk around on the rocks and get right up to the well.  We chose to stay on the viewing platform (slippery rocks and I don’t mix well) but got some great photos of the well in action.  Off to the side of Thors Well is another feature called the Spouting Horn.  That’s a small hole in the rock where the surf would shoot up out of the hole like a geyser.  We got some good photos of that too.

The other landmark is the Heceta Head Lighthouse.  It’s built right on the cliffs edge with two very large rock formation in the surf right below it.  There was a parking lot with a trail leading right up to the lighthouse but the lot was full, so we stopped at a couple of overlooks along Hwy 101 and got some photos.  Here they are: