Spent a rainy weekend, mostly inside. Today we moved to Sequim (pronounced Skwim) State Park , in the supposedly driest part of the peninsula. Still rainy here.
We had lunch with Hal and Georgia Howell. Hal got me hooked up with the smoke jumper trail crews and I went on one of his ski trips to Austria. We have had a lot of good times on trail crews and skiing in Colorado and Austria. It was great to see them and finally met Georgia-she is a real firecracker. Back at camp John was paddling his tarp to keep the table dry. A couple inches of rain this weekend.
The bus in the rain at Manchester State park. Birthday boy John with his birthday mac and cheese. Happy birthday darlin’.
Today we moved to Sequim state park. Here is our campsite on Sequim bay. When I turn around and this is what we see. Too bad it is so cold and rainy, would be fun to boat on this.
The Olympic Discovery bike trail runs through the park. I couldn’t get excited about riding in the pouring rain and John’s bike has a flat tire. We decided to walk on the bike path to the Jamestown S’Klallam Indian reservation and see the totem poles. The sun came out briefly and I snapped this shot of the trail. We did not stop and trespass at this house!
These totem poles are in the casino. The Salish Indians support their long houses with a totem at each corner and one in the center. These are more modern totem poles, but made by the Indians with the old tools in the traditional way. The plaques beside them describe the meaning of the figures. There was also a gallery, but we did not find it. It poured on the way home, then the sun came back out and we had this lovely rainbow on the bay.
Some fall color among the conifers on the bay. This bridge is on the hiking trail.
Over this creek running into the bay. It is mostly cliffs here, not much beach. Above is a sea star, the water is so clear you can see down from the dock. Also saw crabs running sideways and hermit crabs, below are two soaking wet mushrooms by the trail.
A flock of birds overhead at sunset, and sunset over the bay.
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