Another Busy Saturday

This was several weeks ago. We decided to go see as much of the Northern coast as we could in a day. We didn't get as far as we would have liked, but it was still a great day.

We took the scenic route to a lighthouse of which I don't know the name.

It was a little walk to get to it:

I spy a deer. They were jumping/hopping through this tall grass/weeds/flowers like they had pogo sticks on their legs.

Pretty view.

We went all the way to Long Beach, WA. I have to say I was a little underwhelmed. Long Beach is the longest beach and you can drive on it, but we didn't go very far because the sand was pretty soft and we weren't feeling up to getting stuck. It would have been fun to drive right along the ocean like that, but it just didn't work out. Bummer.

Do you think they have cops patrol the beach with their radar guns?

On the way back down the coast we stopped off at Fort Columbia. It was super cool.

"As one of the few intact coastal defense sites in the U.S., Fort Columbia has the most intact collection of historic buildings of all Washington state parks. Fort Columbia was built from 1896 to 1904 as one of the harbor defenses of the Columbia River and constructed on the Chinook Point promontory because of the unobstructed view of the Columbia River. It was off this point that Robert Gray anchored and named the river for his ship, "Columbia Rediviva." Nearby the point was the Chinook Indian Nation village of Nose-to-ilse, and later the station camp for the Lewis and Clark expedition bivouacked on the point during the Corps of Discovery exploration.

For the duration of three wars, Fort Columbia was fully manned and operational. Declared a surplus at the end of World War II, the fort transferred to the custody of the state of Washington in 1950 and was then designated as a state park. Twelve historic wood-frame buildings and four coastal defense batteries still stand on the premises." Source.

Tubular, huh?

Not a bad view.

This is the super long bridge that gets you from Oregon to Washington. It's 2 miles or something...

Dave's favorite past time/guilty pleasure: making his face look as unsightly as possible.

We checked out Seaside, but ultimately decided to end our day at Canon Beach.

The rock from the movie Goonies.

Is this trippy on my eyes only?

Sand in the eyes.

Party on, Wayne!