We decided to spend our 39th wedding Anniversary on the coast, didn't know we were going into the world of "Twilight"! The Vampire series book is placed in the Olympic peninsula towns of Port Angeles, Forks and Lapush. We were inundated with twilight signs, good grief......I guess it's been good for these towns that generally had their economic base from logging, which has really been cut back (wow, what a pun - good for me!) but we were looking for hide aways. We stayed the first night in Sekiu (a fishing community on the coast.) in a "quaint" (there can be various definitions to the word quaint, I'll let you use your imagination on this one.) cabin.
It was very late and it was basically the only thing available.
It was very late and it was basically the only thing available.
We then went on to Lake Ozette to do the 9.2 triangle boardwalk/beach hike
We had done with our kids when they were young. That trip ended with a torrential rainstorm, but that is a story for another day.
The boardwalk trail is one of my favorites
The beach walk is so wonderful it travels from - Cape Alava
to Sand point. The beach has heads that you walk around, and if the tide is in you have to hike around the heads. Sometimes it is a simple trail. Other times they provide rustic stairs. The last head we had to go around wouldn't you know it the tide had been coming in and we would have had a sketchy rock ledge climb around, so we decided to do the over the head route. When we came off the rocks in our attempt to go around the head we had to circle back to where the trail was. When we came around the corner we were surprised to see about an 80 ft. STRAIGHT up trail with a rope afixed and knots every foot or so for a grip (wish I'd taked a picture, but was too focused about how I was going to do this). In the past my fear level was pretty intense for doing things like this, but my new attitude about life and enjoying opportunities has really kicked in. I wasn't scared at all. I was very surprised in my ability to enjoy the effort without my hands and feet shaking. Guess what the way down was exactly the same STRAIGHT down with a fixed rope. Had to just lean back, hold on to the rope and step down. Just like that - Wow :-)
The next day we went to Ruby beach, so wonderful to hear the waves and walk on the sand
All in all - A wonderful Anniversary!
August 28, 1971 and 2010 were both great days.
