May, 2021
Another set of friends arrived this afternoon, also with an Escape trailer. We love our Escape trailers. 🙂
You can see my trailer on the left edge of the photo above … then on the right edge of the photo you can see the dark truck that belongs to the friends who just arrived … and in the middle you can see the very front of the white vehicle that belongs to my friends who arrived yesterday just a few minutes after I did.
The new arrivals got parked and settled, the dog walked, etc. Before we settled down to dinners and chatting, all of us walked back out through the trees, back out along the path, and then out to the “bench” and the overlook on top of the bluff.
You can see the beginnings of warm sunset colors … the orange and pink. It was so peaceful, not a breath of wind, no noise except for the very distant chug-chug-chug of that ocean ship in the photo above … it was heading out to sea. Maybe that ship was carrying cargo from the USA to a foreign shore, or maybe it was headed home after delivering cargo here.
In the photo above, waaaaay in the distance over on the left, we could see Point Wilson on the Olympic Peninsula and we could see a portion of the town of Port Townsend. Let me zoom in for you.
The Point Wilson lighthouse is in the foreground above. The next peninsula behind that one surrounds the Port Hudson marina that’s on the northeastern edge of Port Townsend. The point on that peninsula, way over to the left in the photo above, is a great RV park, right on the edge of Puget Sound where you can watch the big ships and the little boats come and go. I’m planning on camping there one of these days!
Just about in the middle of the photo above, you can see a large white ship with a red vertical line on its bow. That’s a huge US Coast Guard ship. It is visiting the US Naval Magazine (munitions) facility on Indian Island, just across the water from Port Townsend. Every once in a while, we see US Navy submarines come to that dock.
For us however, today, this evening, we had perfect peace and quiet, not another human in sight, as we walked along the bluff over here on the Whidbey Island side of Puget Sound.
All of the photos below are looking west to the San Juan Islands with just a tiny corner of Canada in the distance. Please click on photos to enlarge them.
What a glorious ending to a perfect day.