Dunes and tide pools
2017年8月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
We started our drive up the coast in the morning. This began what felt like a somewhat rushed push - with several hours a day in the van. It seemed like everything took longer than what google mapsもっと詳しく
Cape Perpetua and a place to stay
2017年8月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
We drove up to the view at Cape Perpetua. We could see the toilet flushing down below and the sun sparkled off the water.
But we were all tired and didn't have a campsite reserved nearby - ourもっと詳しく
Another try at crabbing
2017年8月4日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
We left the car wash in good spirits and drove up to the public pier in Newport. We set our trap and then went over to the very cool Marine Science Center.
There was an excellent movie aboutもっと詳しく
The beast!
2017年8月4日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
When we got back to the pier there were no crabs in our trap 😞
However, we'd been chatting with a nice family who was having success with turkey legs and they gave us one to add to our trap. Weもっと詳しく
The feast!
2017年8月4日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
We drove up to Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River on the Oregon side. It was a huge campground with lots of families and kids running around.
But we had things to do - cook George! (Weもっと詳しく
Minnesota 1st
2017年8月5日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
After the usual breakfast chores we drove over to see Fort Stevens itself. While we waited for the truck tour to begin, we got to spend some time with Civil War reenactors from the Minnesota 1st.もっと詳しく
Fort Stevens tour
2017年8月5日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
We had a tour on the back of a 5 ton truck to learn all about the fort. It was the one place in the lower 48 that the Japanese fired on in WWII. A submarine fired several shells at the fort. The fortもっと詳しく
Maritime Museum
2017年8月5日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Over in the town of Astoria we had a quick lunch at the aptly named Pig 'n' Pancakes and then headed over to the excellent Maritime Museum.
The lifeboat pitching on the waves was one of the bestもっと詳しく
Cape Disappointment
2017年8月5日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
We finally crossed the bridge into Washington - our last state! Oregon did go by in a bit of a blur - more so than California - but looking back we did get to see a bunch of things... and we caughtもっと詳しく
Dead Man's Cove
2017年8月5日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
On the way to the lighthouse we found the beautiful dead man's cove. A fun scramble down revealed a pretty little cove which would have been a pirate's paradise!
Cape Dissapointment Lighthouse
2017年8月5日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌫 14 °C
We finished the walk up to the lighthouse. We debated which was taller, the Cape Hatteras lighthouse on the outer banks which we climbed last summer or Cape Disappointment (including the bluff). Turnsもっと詳しく
Another RV Park hit!
2017年8月5日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌫 14 °C
We needed to keep moving north to make it to the Olympic Peninsula so I called a couple camping places but everything was full - if being Saturday night and the interior in the midst of the heat wave.もっと詳しく
Arrival at Hoh Rainforest
2017年8月6日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
We got up early and made our way north to the Hoh Rainforest in hopes of finding a good campsite at the first-come first-served campground at the end of a 20 mile road.
Turns out we got a great,もっと詳しく
An afternoon of gaming and relaxing
2017年8月6日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Having spent so many days driving and pushing ourselves it felt great to just spend the day relaxing and playing games.
Samantha said of Netrunner, one our current favorite games "We have to playもっと詳しく
We meet Bob
2017年8月6日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌫 20 °C
Towards dinner we were relaxing and still playing games when a huge Elk came by and started browsing on the ferns between us and the river. He was very calm and didn't seem to mind the small crowd heもっと詳しく
Bob comes through
2017年8月6日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌫 18 °C
Not content to just forage by the river, Bob decided to walk right up the path to our campsite and nibble some of the tasty plants next to our van. He was so big he seemed to dwarf the van itself!
Heもっと詳しく
A GoT Miracle
2017年8月6日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌫 15 °C
Conspiracy theorists will insist there is a pattern here but nothing could be further from the truth! Here are the facts:
After the first night in Dinuba, we have only skipped sleeping in the van 3もっと詳しく
Rainforest Walk
2017年8月7日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
We took a lovely walk in the Rainforest that started near the visitor's center. We learned that the ferns we were seeing can grow to 14 feet but none were higher that about 4 feet because of what weもっと詳しく
Building the grand canal
2017年8月7日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌫 24 °C
We decided to play in the river after lunch. The main river current was pretty strong and seemed to dangerous for the kids. But we found a little side channel fed by a trickle. We thought we couldもっと詳しく
Bob comes by again and dinner
2017年8月7日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌫 23 °C
I was standing at the kitchen at the back of the van when our neighbor called over "Look to your left" - I closed the door, and not 5 feet away - Bob! I backed off before taking pics. So much for myもっと詳しく
Another rainforest loop
2017年8月8日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌫 20 °C
We walked the short "Hall of Moss" trail after breakfast. Lush and pretty. We really liked the nurse logs where a fallen tree becomes an opportunity for new plants.
The Sitka Spruce were huge! Butもっと詳しく
More loop, then lunch and games
2017年8月8日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌫 21 °C
We finished the loop, including walking on a fallen 210 foot tall Sitka Spruce. Lest all the smiling pictures give the wrong impression - there are plenty of petty annoyances and grievances by all ofもっと詳しく
Ruby Beach walk down
2017年8月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
We left around 3:30 for the 45 minute drive out to Ruby Beach. We went so late in the day to get there as the tide was going out and thus have a better chance at tide pool exploration. I also thoughtもっと詳しく
Ruby Beach driftwood
2017年8月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
A neighbor at our campsite suggested we turn left at the bottom of the trail for a better beach experience. We never found out what was to the right - but left was magical!
Ruby Beach tidepools
2017年8月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
The tide wasn't quite all the way out and it wasn't a particularly low low tide (if it had been we would have been digging for geoduck- an item still on my bucket list).
But the kids had fun playingもっと詳しく