Tillie the Whale, Tillicum Beach Campground, & Cap's Ballroom
8199 Highway 101, Yachats, OR 97498
Tilly the Whale
Tilly the Whale
Cap's Resort near Tillicum Beach
Cap's Ballroom near Tillicum Beach
Tilly's Jaw Bone 1946
Waldport's Dr. Linton with a fossil or large bone at San Marine Beach a bit of Tillicum Beach
San Marine Motor Hotel 1954
More Information Coming Soon
On August 21, 1938, Tillie The Whale, a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), washed up near what is now Tillicum Campground. Sperm whales are the biggest toothed whales, and Tillie was fifty-feet long and weighed in at about 40 tons. Her skeleton was a tourist attraction at Randall's Shore Pines Cottage Park, about five miles south of Waldport for about ten years.
www.beachconnection.net has agreat recap of the story: Oregon Coast's Tillie the Whale History a Kooky and Dramatic One
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