Stop 2 – Port Angeles

Finally I have my camera back in operation and don’t have to rely on my tablet (perhaps then I won’t subject you to any videos!)

Port Angles is home to our friends Jim and Gail (sorry Jim and Gail there are no current pictures here of you guys!) and it’s only a 1.5 hour ride on a ferry across the Straits of Juan de Fuca. Port Angeles is also the gateway to the Olympic Peninsula, a national park, a forest reserve and cities such as Seattle, Tacoma and further south Portland.

Believe it or not this old ferry is still around but now in use. Love the design

No this is not the Coho ferry from Port Angeles but I wish it was.

Old Port Angeles in mural style

And then it’s back to food and friends.  A great gathering with of course plenty of food and laughter.

Dinner at the trough with a full house

And a new cookbook I am introduced to with wonderful Middle Eastern recipes

After eating far too much time for a walk on Dungeness Spit with Jim Lichatowich, the author of ‘Salmon without Rivers’ and ‘Salmon, People and Place’. Great reading about the current state of the salmon industry and the environment

Jim and Connie talking to one of the volunteers at the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge

What magnificent weather. The Pacific North West at its fines

A great little marine centre with lots of live exhibits for kids to watch and learn from