Oregon Coast Real Estate Knowledge Center: Coast Aerial Tours featuring Aerial Image Tours of the Central Oregon Coast Real Estate Market.
South Aerial Guide Overview - Tour Three
Sea Lion Point - Sea Lion Caves
Just south of the Heceta Lighthouse Viewpoint is the Sea Lion Caves, a privately-run attraction featuring the largest sea cave in the world and the rookery site for about two hundred wild Steller (Northern) Sea Lions. Highway 101 arrives at Sea Lion Point and the parking lot areas associated with the Sea Lion Caves built on both sides of the highway. The facilities of the Sea Lion Caves include a visitor center featuring outdoor artwork plus a gift store offering coastal-themed merchandise for sale. In addition, the visitor center sells tickets for accessing the sea cave itself via an elevator ride descending 208 feet to the bottom of the sea cave. At the bottom, the visitor can observe the inside portions of the naturally-formed amphitheater together with the sea lions taking shelter in the dank cavern. The dimensions of the sea cave are approximately the equivalent height of a twelve story building and the length of a football field. The basalt sea cave is believed to be 25 million years old and today features two main entrances to the sea, the Main Cave Entrance positioned almost vertically below the visitor center and the North Entrance located north of the elevator building. The sea lions populate the sea cave area throughout the year including breeding and raising their young. During the fall and winter months, the sea lions can be found inside the cave where during the warmer months of spring and summer the sea lions bask in the sunshine outdoors along the outer ledges of the rocky shoreline. Also, Sea Lion Point is home to several species of nesting seabirds breeding and raising their young along the secluded shorelines including a large colony of Common Murres.
Photo of the privately-run Sea Lion Caves located along the route of the Pacific Coast Scenic Byway at Sea Lion Point within the Lane County Coastline featuring public parking lots sited on both sides of Highway 101 coupled with a visitor center offering coastal-themed merchandise for sale within their gift store area as well as selling tickets for their elevator ride down to the bottom of the sea cave for observing wild Steller Sea Lions.
Photo of the outdoor pathway system built at the Sea Lion Caves connecting to several observation lookouts affording excellent vantage points of the local wildlife living around the rocky shorelines of Sea Lion Point as well as capturing fabulous seascapes of the wave action crashing around the Headland of Heceta Head and Cape Cove.
Photo of the grounds of the Sea Lion Caves set along Sea Lion Point including the visitor center built near the main parking lot entrances, the elevator building for accessing the sea cave positioned on the north end of the pathway, and the South Lookout found on the south end of the pathway offering scenic views of the Headland of Heceta Head and the coastline extending southward towards the sand dunes of the Florence Area.


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