Kit and Carol on the Road

On the way home today we swung by the Grays Harbor County Courthouse. It being Saturday it wasn't open to explore.

Despite the forecast the weather today was rain free. We got a late start because the Carriage Museum doesn't open until 10. It was a very interesting place to visit. All those cool carriages you read about in Victorian novels and even a couple wild west coaches. Then we went to South Bend where we were told there was a really nice courthouse. And found the world's largest oyster (oyster shell actually—see photo. After that we headed to Tokeland to check out the Historic Hotel. Despite being on a spit at the end of the world it was a "nothing to do" place. I wanted to walk on the Beach and we remembered Grayland State Park as being a neat place. But the beach access along this route are drive on the sand for half a mile —not our cup of tea.
So we came back and had a nap :)


Carol Harma--from my iPad

Having trouble posting pictures so will try this one taken this afternoon.

We were having lovely weather in Lacey so decided to take a 2 day adventure to the coast (in our continuing exploration of Washington south of Seattle). We are not actually at the coast but in Raymond which is not exactly the hub of the state. We came here after seeing lots of commercials on TV for the Carriage Museum here. What the heck. It sounded like a central place for some exploring and maybe not as windy. More tomorrow when I take some photos.

Carol Harma--from my iPad

On Saturday while Kit was doing bike stuff I went fabric shopping. On Sunday we went to the brand new Dungeness River Nature Center (lots of info about the watershed and lots of stuffed critters who live there). It is near the Railroad bridge across the river. The river used to go under the bridge until a storm in 2014 moved the channel so they had to make the bridge longer. It's part of the bike trail system on the Olympic Peninsula.

We stayed in a lovely room on Marine Drive near Dungeness Bay. Tides were high so we didn't get to the beach until late afternoon. Thankfully it did not rain our whole weekend. Sequim is in the rain shadow so has much less rain than most of the state.
Our room had a very nice fireplace (real wood kind) which we did enjoy. It also had an ugly pink instrument of torture in the bathroom. It is supposed to be a jetted tub for two.

Kit had to go to Sequim to talk to some people about a program called Cycling without age which uses these strange 3 wheeled bikes to get shut in seniors out into the world. So we made it a weekend. President's Day weekend actually. Out on Saturday. Home on Monday.

Sailed away in the rain past the Victoria Clipper and a Princess cruise ship as big as nearby high rise hotels.

There was an exhibit at the Royal Museum on BC Dinosaurs. This is a tiny model of a newly discovered dinosaur. The interesting bit is that is a 3 D printed model like many museum models.

The bug zoo is one of the coolest things in Victoria.

Coming in to Victoria

Olympics from MV coho

Just pulling out of Port Angeles to
Victoria