Freitag, 8. August 2014

Friday August 1 - Capes Flannery and Alava

We got up and enjoyed our beautiful campsite by having breakfast outside. Then we headed out of Sol Doc, giving up the reservation for the second day, and obtained a permit to camp out on Cape Alava in the wild (!). The road there took about an hour and a half, like everything in Washington... We passed through Neah Bay and looked at the Makah tribe museum, where they explained quite beautifully about an original home they had excavated at Ozette and found many stories of their ancestors confirmed. Some of the new data gathered even allowed them to regain some rights, like fishing with nets.

Then we went on to Cape Flattery, where we hiked 20 minutes to the shoreline, which was absolutely stunning! Reminded us very much of Point Lobos and Monterey.






And then we went down to Lake Ozette where we packed up the tent, put the food in the bear proof boxes, packed up everything else, and hiked about an hour and a half to the shore. We arrived at the ocean about an hour before sunset and had plenty of time to pick the site right on the shore and put up the tent. Then we all enjoyed the beautiful sunset at the beach. The kids were running up and down the beach climbing on the numerous trees that were lying around as driftwood, and they saw lots of crabs on the beach. Selma was getting cold, but the boys kept waiting for the stars to come out. We eventually gave up, because it took the stars too long.









Then we went to sleep. We found out that seals stop making noise at night, but frogs unfortunately do not.

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