Sequim, Washington
Our first look at Sequim Bay
7 Cedar Casino, just a few miles from the campground. Kay won $1600.00 on a penny slot machine. That will keep her in gambling money for a while.
I don't know why I put this picture of the cafe on the blog although we did have a very good meal here.
We like to drive along the not so traveled roads when we stop in an area. We found this strange looking house. I have no idea what it is.
This is the entry gates to the strange house.
On one of our adventure drives, we drove to Cape Flattery, the most northwestern part of Washington.
A view looking south on the point.
Seals and Sea Lions on a rock just off shore at the point.
Light House on an Tatoosh Island at Cape Flattery.
The Moeller Family
The hike down to the point was a killer for me and my bad knee. I did pack a lunch so we could eat and enjoy the scenery.
A view of the clouds low on the water in the Straight of Juan de Fuca. The land in the background is Vancouver Island, Canada
Another of our road trips was up to Hurricane Ridge.
It started our as a clear day.
As we got higher the clouds started to really hang on the mountains. That made for some interesting pictures.
This nice buck we found on the way down the mountain.
Flowers, Flowers everywhere. Kay is now in flower heaven.
Kay doing what she really loves. Taking pictures of flowers. Some day I will have to post a blog on just a few of her flowers. I think I have over 4000 pictures of her flowers.
This is the strangest Thistle flower I have ever seen.
This flower is along the back side of the culvert
Max and Zoe watching a deer walk through the campground.
To do our whale watching trip, we drove into Port Townsend. While we were waiting to board we walked around the pier. We found this school that teaches young people how to build wooden boats. The one I am standing behind is going to be a sail boat.
This is another type of sail boat the students are building.
A couple of the boats on the water.
Boats in the harbor at Port Townsend are very colorful.
Another view of the harbor
This is the Olympas, the boat we will go on the whale watching tour.
Marty is ready to go.
Kay on the upper deck of the boat.
This is Amy one of the crew of the Oplymas. She did do some of the driving on our way out on Straight of Juan de Fuca. We had to travel a long ways to get to the Orcas.
This pod of Orcas is call a transient group. They stay close to the open sea. The resident pod of Orcas that live around the San Juan Islands never go out to sea. They only eat Salmon, where the transient pod will eat anything including seals, sharks, dolphins, fish and any thing they can get. Orcas are at the top of the food chain around here.
It was hard to get good pictures of them with the boat moving and them going under the water.
Commissioned on Dec 14 1857, the New Dungeness Lighhouse was the first navigational light on the Strait of Juan de Luca. It's light is visible for 17 miles. We took this picture from the whale watching boat. It is located at the end of Dungeness Spit.
Getting my truck washed by a bunch of high school band members.
We launched the kayaks into Sequim Bay from here.
Kay is already in the water. Me trying to get my gloves on to start the trip.
Lots of Sea Gulls
Kay took this picture of the green star fish.
This is a traditional Makah fishing boat.
We met Nina at John Wayne Marina. She had never kayaked before so we gave her a lesson. I think we have a new kayak lover.
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