Oh, my darlings, I will have so much scenic goodness for you. So so much. And restaurant recommendations. And adorable fuzzy animals. And hawt hawt geology.
But we’ve got one day more, then I have a coma day set aside to recover. So I’ll just tease you a bit.
The lighthouse at Cape Disappointment:
Twas overcast, but it was pleasant, and the scenery was certainly not a disappointment. Then we got to see our Suzanne! And little Token, who cannot ever get enough tummy rubs and has a doggy grin for anyone who’ll keep giving ’em.
Day Two plans went gang aft agley because of Rainier Days, which had filled every hotel within a billion miles of St. Helens, and a storm that Weather.Com apparently could not see coming. So we improvised, and went to Silver Falls State Park instead. People, it utterly did not suck, and you will be amazed.
And then tomorrow, it’s off to the coast with Lockwood. Excellence awaits. I’ll be back in Seattle shortly, and shall show you All the Things.
Nice! Looking forward to more. A bit of Googling shows both of these places to be well worth a visit.
I love that view of the lighthouse. It’s the only one in Washington with stripes, by the way. We were there once after there’d been a storm out at sea and the waves were crashing about half way up the cliff. There is, of course, another lighthouse just behind you, North Head. The Fresnel lens from it is in the Lewis & Clark visitor center there. It’s enormous.
Wow!
That lighthouse is very dramatic.
Cape Disappointment: apparently, the most badly named cape on Earth.
According to Wikipedia:
It’s on the north shore of the mouth of the Columbia River. Lewis & Clark are supposed to have held a democratic vote among their party to decide whether to winter there or across on the Astoria side. Astoria won. Apparently even Sacajawea, a Native American woman, and York, Clark’s black slave, were given a vote.