Sunday, October 28, 2018
Hey, Ann, where have you been? We miss you!
Ok, ok, I’m back. Gosh I’ve been gone a long time haven’t I? There are two reasons for my absence. As mentioned a while ago, I moved … and then it snowed while I was moving … and then my truck got hit (only minor damage to the truck but still it was in a body shop for a few days and I had a weird little rental car) … and moving is so time-consuming and distracting!
The second reason that I haven’t been posting here is that the hosting company (Bluehost) for my blog has again had problems and I haven’t been able to write a new blog post for over ten days. This is the third time this has happened. I am not happy and will be changing website host companies soon.
But now that I have access to the blog again, let’s get back to what’s really important … camping!
On my third camping day at Sequim (“skwim”) Bay State Park this past October, my friends who live in the town of Sequim again picked me up at my trailer and drove me all over the place in the opposite direction from Hurricane Ridge and from Dungeness River. We headed east this day, driving through lots of wonderfully wooded areas and on many back roads, with the historic town of Port Townsend as our destination. For more information about the fascinating history of this area, check out the website Jefferson County Historical Society.
In the photo above (which I found on the internet), the downtown area of the town of Port Townsend is immediately off to the left. This photo above shows the Point Hudson Marina and, to the right of it, some white-roofed buildings and then, to the right of that, a whole mess of RVs at the Point Hudson RV Park. From this RV park, you have a smack dab front row seat for a view of the most-used entrance to Puget Sound and to every ship, boat, tug, canoe, sailboat, etc, that cruises by here. There’s a back entrance to Puget Sound too (through the La Conner slough and/or Deception Pass, but probably 98% of the commercial ocean ships and tug boats with large barges that enter Puget Sound heading to Seattle or Tacoma chug right past this point, and hundreds/thousands of recreational boats do as well. Obviously, parked here in your RV, you’d have a terrific view but you’d also be wide open to wind coming in off the Strait of Juan de Fuca. But on a good day (and most summer days here are great days), gosh what a view!
The three of us ate lunch in one of those white-roofed buildings (Doc’s Marina Grill, yum) and then poked around the RV park, deciding which camp sites were our favorites.
Then we jumped in the car again and headed north to check out Fort Worden State Park and its campground. You can see the campground in the very VERY upper right hand corner of the photo above. It’s another peninsula with a lighthouse out at the end of it. This campground was mostly surrounded by a natural berm of land/sand and sea grass so it didn’t have the views that Point Hudson did, but a short hike over the berm brought us to a perfect sandy beach.
We discovered a marine center built out on a pier over the salt water. It seemed designed mostly for families with children and mostly for folks who didn’t know much about Puget Sound. Since all three of us were born/raised hereabouts or have lived here for decades, we didn’t hang out long in the marine center, but it was a nice walk out onto the pier. If you visit this area from somewhere else in North America or the world, this small marine center with its museum and an aquarium would be a great place to visit.
Heading back to the car, the fellow below said hello and wished us well. I believe he is a Harlequin Duck, yes?
And then we drove through more lovely countryside (there are no big cities out here) and eventually we returned to Sequim Bay State Park and my little trailer.
We could see rain coming, and lots of rain was forecast, but we had time to take a stroll through this campground and check out the non-electric campsites near the Sequim Bay waterfront/beach (all with too many trees for good solar charging capability), and then my two good friends headed home in their car.
I thought I might be sitting around this campground doing not much of anything for two or three days, but I sure saw a lot! Friends are the best, aren’t they? 🙂
I’ll hitch up the trailer to the truck this afternoon before the rainstorm hits and then I’ll be heading home tomorrow. I’ll post one more blog post describing tomorrow’s adventure, so stay tuned for that.