Tag: beach house

Seal Rock, Oregon

Back in mid August, my family and I headed to the Oregon Coast for a week for vacation. Below are some photos and great memories we shared together.

Here is a panorama of the end of the beach.

Here is a little background on the photos below: We rented a beach house right with a 1 minute walk down a trail to get to the beach.

The time on vacation was spent hanging out with family, relaxing, exploring the beach, and for me: running on the beach!

The beach was beautiful when we went, most of the days we were there it was sunny and warm. Going down to explore the beach was something that never got old where we were there.

This was taken at the top of the stairs leading down to the beach.
This was taken on one of my beach runs at the very end of the beach, about 1.5 miles from where our house was.
This was also taken at the end of the beach on my run.

Another thing to note about the beach was the amazing sunsets we were able to watch. I didn’t get many photos of these, but they were beautiful. Full of orange, pink, purple, and every color in between.

This photo has a weird glare to it, as it was taken inside the house with the glass door in the way of me and the sunset.
This one was taken down on the beach before we headed to build a fire pit on the beach for a bon fire later that night.

I can’t remember the last time I had been around a real fire. With the burn bans normally in place when we go camping, it has probably been 3-5 years since sitting around a real fire. I forgot how warm and inviting they are. Waking up the next morning with my hair and clothes smelling like smoke was a great feeling.

Here are the embers before we put the fire out for good that night. Even from the embers, it was amazing how much heat was being given off.

This was the first time where we opted out of camping in Winthrop and switched it up with a beach house in Oregon. It was a bittersweet change. It was really nice having a bed to sleep on and a private bathroom down the hall. The one thing I did miss from camping was being forced to unplug from technology, as at the campground there is no service.

I think that unplugging from the world and just being surrounded by nature is a good reminder of what is important in life and what you can go without. Most for the time at the beach house, I would look around and everyone was either watching TV, on their phone, or IPad. This is something I was guilty of too, but I wish I would have taken more time to unplug and be with those most important in my life.