Oregon coast!

So by now you are probably getting a little worried that we are spending too much time outdoors. You don't understand. We have to! The impending horror that is winter is barreling down at us like a wet freight train. Starting July 5th a kitchen timer starts counting down to October. It creates a kind of hysteria in Portland to do everything outside all the time. So we went to the coast.

We went to the world famous Sea Lion caves. The largest in the world! It was not as smelly as I thought it would be and May is starting to make her peace with marine mammals...although whales are still out of the question.

While we were down there I would thought it would be an opportune time to drop some ocean policy knowledge on a group of onlookers. I talked about marine reserves and renewable wave energy. It was a cool chance to talk with people who live in the area (I'm not a crazy person, they asked me to speak).