Moving on...

 I just had to throw in another pic from Potlatch.

It has been a dry spell, where wi-fi availability is concerned. Sadie departed The Waterfront at Potlatch on Sunday around noon. After a lovely, leisurely drive, we spent the next two days at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, WA. This park was formerly a military installation that dates back to the turn of the last century. It is now used as a convention center and museum as well as an RV park.

Driving up US 101 toward Port Townsend.

 The view from Liliwaup.

 Another highway shot.

On the peninsula that protrudes out into the junction of The Strait of Juan de Fuca and Admiralty Inlet, there is a lighthouse that is no longer in service. There is an automated, lighted aid to navigation mounted on the outside of the lens house, but otherwise the lighthouse, like so many of its cousins is being relegated to the dustbin of history. In addition to the lighthouse, there is an old fortified battery. It is a sight to see. Of course the guns are no longer there, but the concrete bunkers and magazines remain.

 The fetching Mrs. Blogger

 The old blogger himself on the roof of the Fort Worden Battery.

 My three girls

 Fort Warden campground from atop the battery.

 I never got the name of this lighthouse.

I'm sure some of the rooms in the structure were offices and barracks, and there are overhead tacks in what must have been the magazine. They were undoubtedly used for transporting rounds of ammunition for the several guns. According to the one and only sign we found explaining what we were seeing, the guns were put in place in 1902. They were never fired, and then in 1913 they were sent to Europe. Don't get me started on government waste!

 Some of the military structures at Fort Worden

 A little landscape shot. 

I found this battery interesting, because it is almost a carbon copy of the one at Fort Stevens, near Warrenton, OR. We visited Fort Stevens several years ago and learned that the guns there had a similar history to those at Fort Worden. Apparently, the government didn't feel it strategically necessary to arm these gun emplacements during WW2.

OK, so enough with the history, already. We also had a lovely time walking on the beaches that surround the RV park, and of course, the dogs loved the opportunity to explore new smells and things to roll in. Pogo is especially glad, I think, to be vacationing, after having surgery recently to remove a benign adenoma from behind her right eye. The tumor was pushing her eyeball out of its socket, but as you will see in the photos, she is back to normal...except that her hair is cut really short to try and balance out her look, after half of her head was shaved for the surgery.

 Go for a walk??

 The beach at Fort Worden on the Strait of Juan de Fuca side.

 A little beach community

 Their royal highnesses.

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The Strait of Juan de Fuca with a cloud bank over Victoria, B.C., Canada.

 Oh! Me father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light.

After a couple of days at Fort Worden, we were a little sad to move on, but it was fun to see new territory that neither of us had seen before. We left Port Townsend this morning and drove west on US 101. At Port Angeles, the highway turns to the southwest and winds through the mountains. One of the highlights of the trip was seeing Crescent Lake, which is a large lake nestled among the Olympic mountains. Jill tried to get photos of the lake from the moving coach, but of course that is a real challenge, especially when it is raining, and the camera wants to focus on the raindrops on the windshield! Nevertheless, she got a couple of passable photos.

Crescent Lake, WA.

 Crescent Lake, WA.

 Crescent Lake, WA.

After we left Crescent Lake behind, the sky opened up, and we thought we would have to stop rather than drive through the torrent. The shower was short-lived, though, and we were able to continue. About the time we arrived at La Push on the Quileute Indian Reservation, the clouds began to clear and we were able to have a lovely walk on the beach. The girls loved it, and so did we. As I write this, the sun is about to dip itself into the Pacific Ocean.

 The Quileute needles at La Push, WA.

 Lulu had a long day on the beach.

Bedtime in La Push.

This park is in quite a remote location. There is no cell phone service, and the wi-fi that is available is at the office only. I will use it tomorrow to post this. Our next destination is another state park without wi-fi, so the posts will be spotty, but I will try to fill in the blanks when I can. Meantime, rest assured that we are having a lovely adventure.