On Monday, August 3, we moved from Upper Campground site 67 to Fort Worden's Beach Campground site 41. What a beautiful spot with easy access to the beach just a short walk over the beach grass covered dune.
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| Site #41 |
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| Best site we stayed in on this trip |
Looking toward the coastal gun battery under the trees. The beach is just on the other side of the dunes the battery is built into.
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| Laura practicing how to shoot food. |
Living with a former chef, restaurant owner, and caterer has its perks. Dinner created from some of Laura's Farmers Market finds. The strawberries showed up later in the ice cream.
Laura is loving the new grill. The salmon was cooked on a water soaked cedar plank. The rustic picnic table for the photo came free with the campsite.
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| The short path from the campsite to the beach |
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| Looking toward the coastal battery |
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| Guardians of the beach. |
From the beach, I walked over to Battery Kinzie. The battery was an amazing structure completely open to the public.
Looking back on half of the Beach Campground from atop Battery Kinzie. We're the motorhome to the right and in the back close to the hill.
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| Under the batteries was a maze of concrete magazines for storing the munitions for the guns. Each magazine was a separate concrete room with thick walls and a ceiling. |
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| Command post for the battery |
On the Road Again
After one night is site #41 we moved to site #28, near where we spent our first night at Fort Worden. By now we were getting pretty good at picking up stakes and moving.
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| Point Wilson Lighthouse is within walking distance of the Beach Campground |
At low tide, you can walk a long way west on the beach as we did one morning. It was a beautiful sunny day, like most we enjoyed on this trip.
Tea House
While I worked from the motorhome in the mornings, Laura would sometimes head out and enjoy tea while reading at Pippa's Real Tea shop. They have a wonderful garden in the back.
Sunset at Point Wilson Lighthouse
We enjoyed a lot of beautiful sunsets while staying at the Beach Campground. One evening we headed over to the lighthouse to see what the camera could capture.
Kayaking and Memories
Having visited the same place for nearly thirty years has allowed us to watch things evolve. One of those places is a restaurant overlooking the water that is now closed. We both remember the place from our honeymoon. Another is the B&B we stayed at on the NW corner of Washington St. and Pierce St., that has returned to being a private residence. Seeing the town from the water also reminds us of restaurant decks we've eaten at, and public access piers that didn't exist all those years ago.
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| We love the Washington State Ferries. Seeing and riding on them never grows old. |
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| The gray building to the left over the water was a restaurant 29 years ago, but now it is closed. |
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| One of the public access piers. This one is connected to the Northwest Maritime Center. |
Farewell to Fort Worden
Our final sunset at Fort Worden was beautiful, as they all had been. As our thoughts turned to moving onto Gig Harbor, we were reminded how much we had anticipated this trip, and how wonderful it had been. In fact, it had exceeded our expectations. Both Point Hudson Marina and RV Park, and Fort Worden State Park had been outstanding, and well worth coming back to.
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| Laura catches the final light |
We both look forward to returning for our thirtieth wedding anniversary next year. We love revisiting the familiar and discovering the new in places you thought you already knew.
Live
well, Laugh
often, Love
much
