Pacific Beach State Park Pacific Beach, Washington Day 2

We started our day with a nice walk on the beach.

High tide at 10:02 am.  The incoming tide swirling and mixing with the water from the river.

Beach creatures.  Razor Clams that can be collected with a permit.

Dungeness crab bigger than my outstretched hand.

Gull in the surf.

The gulls don’t like crab legs.

We walked a couple of miles and then rested for awhile before taking a drive to Ocean City, Washington.  There are black-tailed deer all over town.  We saw more than 20.

We walked out onto this spit that is famous for petrified wood, agates, and jade.  It started to rain before we got very far so we headed back to the car.

We watched brown pelicans flying over the rocks and then diving into the water for fish.

We had lunch at Oyhut Bay Bistro.

We spent a lazy afternoon in the RV and in the meantime, the sun came out again.  We drove to Seabrook for dinner at Mill 109.

The waiter there talked to us about the weather here on the coast of Washington.  He said they basically live at a fairly constant 55 degrees year round….with lots of rain.

A great Oregon Pinot Nior.

We made it to the beach for the end of the sunset.

4 or 5 years ago while we were in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, we met a couple of bike tourers, Linda and Mike.  They had sold all of their belongings and they spend their lives biking from one place to another.  They have a blog that we have followed for all these years.  They have been an inspiration to us.  They have biked across the United States and through South America to Patagonia.  This week they are in Idaho.  They stayed with a guy who is a school teacher.  He wanted Mike and Linda to go to his class and talk to the kids about their life on the road.  They found this poem on the teacher’s blackboard.  It spoke to me.  The teacher wrote it for his students.