Monday, October 29, 2018
At the end of my last blog post, my friends had just dropped me off at my trailer in the campground and then they drove back to their home in the town of Sequim. On my own now, after another great day with friends, I climbed up into my trailer, happy as could be. About 5 minutes later the skies opened up and the rain poured down! Well, ok, I guess I won’t be hitching up the trailer to the truck right now. So much for my plan to do that today, before the rain!
It rained hard the rest of that late afternoon and all evening. So I just snuggled inside my little trailer where I was warm and dry.
By morning, wonder of wonders, the rain had stopped. The trees and bushes were still sopping wet and noisy with all of that rich, dripping water. But the skies were dry and clear.
I had intended to head home this morning, but I just couldn’t resist … I took off in the truck for a little morning exploration figuring I’d hitch up the trailer after lunch and then I would head home.
So this last morning here, it was just me and my big white truck. I drove along back roads as close to the saltwater of the Strait of Juan de Fuca as I could. This late in the year, not many people were out and about so I had the roads pretty much to myself.
I drove past the John Wayne Marina and Resort and the RV campground there.
In the photo above, you can see the marina. The campground is in the lower left corner of the photo. Most of the water in the photo above is Sequim Bay, but you can see a narrow spit of land in the upper left corner. Beyond that spit of land is the big Strait of Juan de Fuca that all of the big commercial ocean-going ships use to transit to get to Seattle or Tacoma in the USA or to Vancouver or Victoria in Canada on their way here from all over the world. That spit of land is almost a mile long, but even at that it doesn’t completely protect or enclose Sequim Bay. The circular breakwater rip-rap that surrounds the John Wayne Marina is needed to protect small private boats from all of the huge wakes from the ocean-going ships.
My next interesting stop was at the “foot” of Dungeness Spit. Because I needed to head home today, I didn’t take the time to park and then hike out along Dungeness Spit. That will have to wait for another day. But I did drive through the campground there and note my two favorite campsites for future use.
Both of the campsites above had excellent views of the Strait, with Canada’s Vancouver Island off in the distance to the north. Neither campsite has electrical hookups, but both have decent solar potential for most of the day. Unfortunately, most of the campsites at this exceptional campground (the Dungeness Recreation Area) can’t be reserved, they are almost all first-come first served.
That was about all the time I had this morning for exploring and puttering about. I needed to get back to camp and get hitched up in order to head home. But on my drive back to the Sequim Bay State Park campground, I drove past one bay with this lovely wooden boat at anchor.
How peaceful.
I managed to get back to my campsite, have lunch, and then get the trailer and truck hitched up before the rain hit again in the afternoon. Shortly after I drove out of the campground with trailer in tow, it poured! But I was blessed, wasn’t I? Not one drop of rain during my morning drive, and not one drop of rain while I was hitching up. What a super three days I had on the north end of the Olympic Peninsula at Sequim Bay. There sure are lots more things to see on my next trip here. I’m looking forward to it and will keep you posted. 🙂
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Oh you’ve got that right! When it works, technology is absolutely wonderful. When it doesn’t work, it’s amazing how it drives us nuts. Glad you’re back, Peter. 🙂
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Yay. 🙂 Hope your blog is running smoothly Kathy.
I’m in! Even got a comment in before Ginger. 🙂 She’s fast!
Lol…here I am
It sure is saying something when you can beat Ginger to the comment section. 🙂 Thanks for re-subscribing Nevada.
I wondered what happened. All signed up again.
Thanks heavens. Life is ok once again. 🙂
I’m here, too. I don’t comment much but I read and enjoy every post.
Thanks for re-subscribing Ann. I love comments and the people who post them, and I love the people who simply read the posts and enjoy them and rarely or never comment. It’s all good. I’m very glad you’re here.
I hadn’t been following along because my enter list was wiped out to but I am pretty sure it was by Century Link, that are nothing but hackers. So slowly I am finding my travel blogs and adding them in.
Pictures are so gorgeous.
I’m so sorry to hear about your technological “glitches” too, Jo. I used to work in the computer industry. It’s full of professional folks; they are human and do make mistakes. What’s frustrating is when the “mistakes” seem like blatant purposeful actions. Who knows, life does go on, and we still can go adventuring and enjoy each other! I’m keeping that in mind. 🙂
Thanks for the compliment on the photos.
Gotcha Ann. Sure glad you have all of us saved up somewhere. By the way, this blog post reminded me that John Wayne’s first film was “The Big Trail” and was shot right here in my home state of Montana. Hope you come see us one of these days.
I absolutely have you and everyone else saved up! In a very safe place! 🙂
Interesting information about the John Wayne movie. I looked it up online and found out that movie came out in 1930, just a few years ago. Montana is absolutely on my list of places to visit, and I’ll be asking advice about where to go and what to see, so be prepared.
I’m signed up too. Beautiful country.
Yay. 🙂 Thanks for sticking with the blog Adrienne. And yes it’s gorgeous country isn’t it.
Beautiful country and great pictures.
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Be Safe and Enjoy your exploring.
It’s about time.
Thanks Rick. One of the options I’m looking at is Blogspot. It has some limitations compared to a full-on hosting company, but there are fewer possible problems too. Also looking at Hostgator. Two other travel blogs I follow use Hostgator and praise it highly. There are lots of options out there, including setting up a webserver in my home, but then there are bandwidth issues and other such idiosyncrasies. I’ll keep looking for a bit, but I’m interested in getting the blog moved rather soon before something else goes astray. Thanks for hanging in here. 🙂
Bob here from sunny but windy Las Vegas.
Hooray for B & J! 🙂 Thanks for sticking with me Bob. Hope all is well with you and yours. I’m sure you’ve been aware of the recurring snow up here. But in between, it has mostly been sunny and nice, tho cold. My very best to you both.
I am so heartened! More than half of the people who were subscribed as followers to this blog have already re-subscribed … and it hasn’t been even 24 hours since I sent out the email with that information and request. Thank you! All of you! And thank you to everyone who will yet be re-subscribing. What a great bunch of really nice people you are. 🙂
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So glad you kept track of us Ann. I have resubscribed and hope everyone does. This is the best blog ever. Great photos and wonderful stories.
Thank you! I think my readers are the best readers ever! 🙂
Resubscribed. Thanks Ann.
You are welcome Shawn. Let’s get on with this adventure.