Exploding Whale Beach Camp

08/04/2024

Some fun recent guest journal entries. ✏️ We especially enjoy the kid reports & drawings. 🌸🐳🌊🌿

07/29/2024

This 2024 summer has been flying by and seems we’ve had plenty of happy-campers!

It’s pretty special when you’re only a block from the ocean and it’s dark & quiet at night. Perfect for star gazing and evening campfires. ⛺️

04/05/2024

Some Airstream history for ya!

Visit the Airstream Heritage Center and see the Wally Bee – a fiberglass prototype that's one of Wally Byam's most innovative experiments.

04/02/2024

More retro-alternative vacay places to visit! .org

Why enclose yourself in another hotel room when these delightfully offbeat lodgings await?

02/03/2024

Ah. Dreamy dream. Kind of like Exploding Whale Beach Camp and this concept supports our thoughts of putting the little 1958 to a new purpose here at camp. Stay tuned!

Why repurpose a single trailer for a cramped experience when you could pair five of them, each with a specific function, and get the most fab glamping unit?

12/14/2023

Aluminitis is here to stay!

Richard Stockton explains in his Good Times cover story why the Airstream trailer is the perfect accessory dwelling unit

11/13/2023

What a super Exploding Whale day in Florence, Oregon! 💥🐳♥️🙌

FLORENCE, Ore. — Sunday marked the 53rd years since a dead s***m whale was blown up with dynamite in Florence.You can find our sister station KATU's original re

11/09/2023

Yes! 53rd Exploding Whale Celebration & Commemoration day is this Sunday!

The Florence community has made a fun event out of a messy situation that occurred more than 50 years ago.

10/23/2023

Who dat?

09/20/2023

Vote for Eugene Emeralds' - Best Alternate Identity! Go vote for our Exploding Whales! 💥🐳

milb.com/fans/best-alternate-identity

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🚨 Whales Fans!! YOU can vote now for the Exploding Whales as Alternate Identity of the Year! 🐳

Link in bio!

09/12/2023

Ready for some vintage-camp fun?
Goin' with the Flo Vintage Trailer Rally is comin’ up!

Goin' with the Flo Vintage Trailer Community Open House September 30

08/13/2023

Loving when camp guests leave artistic journal entries!

08/08/2023

Oregonian Fun! 😂

06/24/2023

Fun stuff! Hey campers! Create your sandcastles! 🏰

Driftwood Shores & Sand Master Sandboarding invite you to “Celebrate Sand” all summer long in Florence!

We want to see sand sculptures, sand castles, sand designs or even build a little creation on your sandboard! Large or small, it’s all about healthy sand fun! 🏰

(And please be mindful to pack out any unnatural sand tools! We want to be good to our whales and sea-life) 🐳

A distinguished panel of community leaders & artists will be selecting 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners by the end of September.

First place winner will receive:

- One Night in an oceanfront room at Driftwood Shores

- Two awesome Signature Sandwiches at The Market at Driftwood Shores

- Two Sand Master Park t-shirts!

2nd & 3rd prizes to be announced! 🙌

Hashtag your creation as

Or email photos of your creation to: [email protected]

Stay & Play more at Driftwood Shores by reserving a room here: bit.ly/3QE0pW7

Happy Summer and let’s Celebrate Sand!

06/05/2023

HAPPY 6th Anniversary Exploding Whale Beach Camp!

We love that this memory popped up of our friends that flew into Florence and were our first camp guests!

Cheers to Jukebox Mark, Airplane Wayne & Exploding Whale Beach Camp!

05/26/2023

A guest told us about how they loved "Googling" our place and told us about posts we had never seen before. Love it! Here's one fun guest report! 🐳

If you’re wondering where to stay in Florence, Oregon that’s a bit off the beaten path…look no further. In this post, I’ll share the highlights of glamping at a unique Airbnb in Oregon with a quirky and intriguing name: Exploding Whale Beach Camp.

05/18/2023

We love this poetic guest review from Josh & Family 👨‍👩‍👧

05/13/2023

Yes! 🙌

Moondocking
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The puns just keep coming. Some moonlight boondocking with some invisible guests. I lit this from several different angles with a handheld ProtoMachines light painting device during the exposure. This was photographed during a 10-day 2559-mile night photography road trip with Mike Cooper, Tim Little, and George Loo. This photo may appear in an upcoming book of night photography and history.
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Photos, books, workshops and more: www.kenleephotography.com
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(Plate 1025) Nikon D610/Rokinon 12mm f/2.8 fisheye lens. 181 seconds f/8 ISO 200. July 2019.
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05/08/2023

Exploding Whale's made an appearance at the Eugene Emeralds Exoloding Whale game this weekend! The whales met the very-news reporter, Paul Linnman, who made the whale famous by his report! Wow! 🐳🙌♥💥

04/16/2023

The Oregon Coast is the perfect road trip experience! We’ve got your road-trip journal in the Airstreams for ya! (Until supplies run out!) 🐳

04/03/2023

The dunes and Heceta’s natural surroundings are still being enjoyed to this day! Enjoy some nostalgic photos of years gone by.

03/28/2023

Eugene Emeralds coverage by The Oregonian with Paul Linnman! The whale lives on! 🐳

Eugene Emeralds coverage by The Oregonian with Paul Linnman!

Read here: https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/2023/03/bill-oram-an-exploding-whale-minor-league-baseball-and-how-paul-linnman-links-the-two.html

03/26/2023

Even CNN loves our whale! Bam!

For four games only, the Eugene Emeralds will re-brand and become the Eugene Exploding Whales.

03/24/2023

Right on Eugene Emeralds & City of Florence, Oregon -! Love it! 🐳

Seven years ago when Dan & I first talked about finding a few old Airstreams and putting them on our property to rent out to campers, we hesitated but knew - we had to honor the whale. Exploding Whale Beach Camp was concieved. Some turned their noses up at our camp name but it has worked and has been the most fun and work that we've encountered. Cheers to fun. Cheers to the whale. And Cheers to all those 'who get it'. 🐳

03/24/2023

Everybody loves the whale. ❤️🐳‼️

Starting in April, the Eugene Emeralds will become the

03/24/2023

Bam!

03/20/2023

Airstream partners with luxe brands like Porsche & Mercedes. But here at Exploding Whale Beach Camp, old-school is still cool. 75 years later!

Airstream has been a pioneer of stylish trailer travel since its inception 75 years ago. Now, the legendary automotive brand has introduced its latest design — and it’s the sleekest trailer yet. A long sought-after collaboration, the new model has been designed alongside Studio F. A. Porsche. .....

02/15/2023

Nice to have Oregon Airstream camps featured. Even if they missed Exploding Whale Beach Camp. That’s okay. 🐳🌿🦀

For decades, the polished aluminum of the potato-shaped Airstream trailer represented an embrace of the open road in the United States. While Airstreams have fallen by the wayside in favor of RVs, teardrop trailers and other modern conveniences, they hold a special place in the hearts of those enamo...

01/25/2023

Keep celebrating the whale! Bam!

We took a road trip to Florence, Oregon, for the Exploding Whale Memorial Celebration, celebrating 51 years of exploding whales.

02/02/2018

Kia Motors America

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Watch rock legend Steven Tyler feel something again in the new Kia Stinger commercial.