Two night midweek mini vacation to Port Townsend, earliest non-native settlement in Washington state and a day trip to Dungeness Spit Lighthouse.
Lots of very cool shops and sights in PT, thriving wooden boat industry, and Fort Worden, one of three "Triangle of Death" Forts guarding the Strait of Juan De Fuca and entry to the Salish Sea and Puget sound.
Wiki spiel: Constructed between 1898 and 1920, Fort Worden was one of the largest Endicott Period (1890-1910) forts to be built and a rare example of a post built according to the precepts of the Endicott Board on land not already occupied by an existing fortification.
There is an older Fort nearby too, Fort Townsend circa 1856, not much of anything left there, Ft Warden has most of it's concrete buildings and gun emplacements scattered over acres and acres.
I'm a fan of old stuff, Forts in particular.
The 5+ mile walk out to the lighthouse on Dungeness spit was almost perfect, light breeze at our back, -2.3' tide and lots of beautiful rocks here and there in the sand.
The walk back a couple hours later had 20 mph headwind, quickly incoming tide eating all the nice sandy walking and it turned into some serious toil. We were both pretty wiped out when we got to the car. 12 miles altogether on foot that day with the last 3 or so being very difficult.
Very glad we did it though!
Yes it is late July, and yes it gets very cool near the ocean until the fog burns off. So much of the country is sweltering and here we are in jackets- crazy!
I find them difficult to keep lit
