Oregon Caves, Coast and Cheese


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August 28th 2008
Published: September 4th 2008
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In Crescent City, California, we took a detour from the 101 and took Highway 199 to Cave Junction, Oregon, in order to visit Oregon Caves National Monument. Not only is Oregon Caves National Monument one of only a few National Parks in Oregon, they are also very rare caves in that they are made of marble. Only 5% of the world's caves are marble, most are limestone. As is the case with the major... Read Full Entry



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Currently 180 feet below the top of the cliff.
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The sea lion cave. You can't see no lions, but there's one in the shadows in the rocks closest to us.
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Me doing my part to help this live up to its reputation as the most photographed lighthouse (Heceta Head Lighthouse).
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Took a look at Tillamook.
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Don't they look like they're having fun!
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This is a lot of cheese.
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Who cut the cheese? The wires are actually cutting the cheese at the command of this scary, disembodied hand.
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No hair in my fresh cheese, please. This girl is vacuum packing fresh cheese underneath those hoods.
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This is a sorting machine (moving left to right) that automatically weighs the cheese blocks and separates them into different lines if they are off. The center line is normal weight, and the one about to go onto the solid conveyer belt is off-weight.
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Where all the milk-magic happens.



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