Views of Sequim, the Olympic Peninsula. . .and beyond
When a friend and I went to Solduc falls, we saw quite a line up pulled over at the rive so we stopped to see what was the commotion. The salmon were running heavily and it was so fun to watch them launch themselves up the little falls.
This is close to the end of the trail, just before you can view the island with the lighthouse (if it’s not fogged in). They have really nice platforms built for safe viewing. Weather is always very unpredictable here. This was my third trip here and my first time actually being able to see the lighthouse and the other side of most the inlets!
The Cape Flattery Light is a historic lighthouse structure located at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca near Neah Bay, Clallam County, in the U.S. state of Washington, within the Makah Indian Reservation.
In September 2009, a three-phase clean-up of Cape Flattery was completed by the Coast Guard. A thirty-foot skeletal light tower topped by a solar-powered LED light was installed on the island in 2008, allowing old generators and fuel tanks to be removed. The decommissioned Cape Flattery Lighthouse has been turned over to the Makah Indian Tribe, who controls the island.
One of the many inlets at Cape Flattery trail.
Cape Flattery is only a 90 minute drive (on a VERY WINDING road) from Sequim.
What the heck is this you say? Well…Teams creative human powered art that must go thru the streets in a parade, then roll down the boat ramp into the bay, creating the biggest splash possible (or if you can’t do that–have an epic tip over) then paddle over to the dock and back. Lastly exit the water. In past years that was the hardest part but this year most made it out unscathed.
This years’ theme was Kinetic Komedy. Most the town dresses up in…well you’ll see…just about anything!
Here the MC is introducing Holey Moley ROLEY POLEY
Here the Mars Roamer is getting checked out by the judges and safety crew (you have to have a brake for the ramp and a life vest on. Just in case. Note all the non-participant costumes!
The Viking boat.
Workers and volunteers use mule trains to get supplies into the national forest/park as motorized vehicles are not allowed. It does make hiking the trails when they are there VERY INTERESTING. It became a mine field of poo as well as so very skinny bypasses. But we are grateful for their work.
Kids getting in one last swim from the Fairholm dock on Lake Crescent. The water is always sooooooo clear here.