Liked Port Angeles, we'll be back.
Oly Penninsula has the tallest trees I've ever seen!
Lake Crescent/Elhwa River area must be heaven for boaters & fishermen.
Kalaloch Lodge is a nice rustic lodge, with the best beach. (But the thick-as-fog, ethereal ocean mist wafting in may have colored my opinion.)
Why is Ocean Shores such a dead place? It has so much potential. Is it because it's cold & windy too much of the year? And why aren't any of the restaurants (except the overpriced Shilo Inn restaurant) open past 8:30pm?
Hmmm, crabs really do look like trilobites. Now I wonder why that could possibly be?
I doubt Hoquiam/Aberdeen was pretty even when all the mills were operating. But all the iron silohuette sculptures in nearby Raymond are a delightful touch.
There is logging going on, just not much. But logging trucks do go by, and they're carrying some nice looking logs harvested from their plantations. Each plantation is marked by a sign indicating when the last harvest was, when the new harvest was planted, and when it will be harvested. For instance: Harvested & replanted in 1986, next harvest in 2036. Talk about farming on a loooooong schedule!
Astoria is a cute town, with lots of potential. On the road to Long Beach (from Portland), a working town with a cool bridge at the mouth of the Columbia, and they're working hard to keep it a nice tourist town.
Had my first (of many more to come) oyster stews made with Willapa Bay oysters. I am in love!
Glad to see the Republic is still standing...
Well, sort of. No science on these threads anymore, tho. Freakin' Bible class.
Now you know why prostitution is still legal there.