On March 9, 2009 (Monday) we took Trek on a shake down trip to Grayland Beach State Park which is about 8 miles south of Westport, WA. We are preparing ourselves and Trek for our BIG trip in May to ID, MT, WY, SD, ND, and into Canada. We had a great trip and really had beautiful weather considering this time of the year. We had our camping spot pretty much all to ourselves and could climb the sand dune behind our site where we could look out over the ocean. We awoke the first morning to cold temperatures and YES snow. This did not stop us! We headed south for 5 miles to Tokeland, WA and bought some fresh dungeness crab right off the boat. We also hunted down some geocaches in the area for a total of 12 during our entire trip. Some of the great memories will be having clam chowder at the famous "One Eyed Crab" restaurant in Westport, visiting the Westport Meritime Museum, cooking pancakes on the grill outside, watching the surfers off the Westport jetty, enjoying a beach fire, and the beautiful walks on the beach and around the Westport area. We stayed for four nights and cannot wait to go back sometime soon. The weather, after the first morning, was clear and sunny with the temperature staying in the mid 40's. We hope that you enjoy our pictures!
The picture above is of the original Westport Lighthouse. Standing 107' tall this was dedicated in 1898. It is the tallest in Washington and the 3rd tallest on the West coast. The base sits on 12' of sandstone. Walls at the base are 4' thick and are made of brick with a coating of cement on the outside. It takes 135 steps to bring you to the lantern room. In 1898 this sat 400' from the high tide line, now it is 3,000' back from the high tide line. We love lighthouses and wanted to share just a little more local history.
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