Elevator-Accessed Sea Cave

The billboards proclaim, "World's Largest Sea Cave" for the massive opening beneath Hwy 101 south of Yachats. But their silent yell should boast, "World's Only Elevator-Accessed Sea Cave Full of Moaning Water Beasts That Smells Like Fish Food."
I reluctantly pay my $11 in the roadside shop that is exactly the place to go if looking for small dangling sea-lion paraphernalia. The elevator leaves from a small deck platform and looks just like any office elevator in the city. It only goes down and the lights above the door measure the feet from 20 to 200. 200 feet down to the cave. The doors open to a black hallway with some displays cut into the rock walls, a carpet, and a reak of fish. The older gentleman who is the cave's guide, says he doesn't mind the stench, though his wife wouldn't be caught dead in there.
The scene in the 125-foot-tall cave is impressive. The lions fit into every corner of exposed rock, occasionally wiggling off into the rising and falling surf that enters through an unseen opening to the right. It looks and sounds like hundreds of angsty teenagers lounging about in the senior lounge, being whiny, chirpy, and moany.
I normally stay away from caves with carpets and lighted displays, but it's not often you see, hear, and smell 180 sea lions beneath your scenic drive.