View from Port Townsend by junge1
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Once I had seen Mount St. Helens on Wednesday, the third day after leaving Phoenix, I booked a place to stay. I was lucky. I stayed in a Navy facility north of Everett.
I knew Tara wouldn't be home from work until 17:30. So while I was driving north I called her and we agreed to meet Thursday evening. That gave me all day Thursday to drive around. I wanted to go to the Olympic Peninsula and see Port Townsend, Hurricane Ridge, the Hoh Rainforest, and maybe eat some seafood at Port Angeles.
I had been at these places before, but once I stayed at Port Angeles and another time at McChord AFB near Tacoma.
So on Thursday morning, a beautiful sunny day (why couldn't it have been like this when I was stationed there) I left the Naval facilty in time to miss, hopefully, rush hour traffic.
I had to drive all the way to Olympia, a distance of 100 miles or so (the Hood Canal Bridge was closed for maintenance) before I turned west.
Once on the Peninsula the slowest guy set the pace. Speed limit was 45mph, slower through the many small communities. Two-lane roads, beautiful scenery but I realized somewhere along this drive that I wouldn't be able to see everything I had planned. To make matters worse, the place was swarming with cops. Town cops, highway patrol, sheriff patrols, all dead set to get their slice of the almighty dollar. And they were resourceful; binoculars, hidden places, pop-up radar etc.
The first place I stopped was Port Townsend, located on the northeast corner of the Olympic Peninsula, and itself on a tiny peninsula.
Port Townsend is a lovely place, with old, New England style houses, wonderfully landscaped gardens, a deer wandering across the street like it was owning the place, and many tourists.
The view in the picture shows Whidbey Island in the middle distance, and Mt. Baker (10,778-ft) about 60 miles distant as the crow flies. Mt. Baker is another 'dormant' volcano.
This picture was taken on 21 May 2009.
Thank you for viewing, commenting, and any favs,
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Comments (42)
flora-crassella
wonderful picture!!!!!
Dreamingbee
fantastic shot!
bmac62
This is great...going right into favs. I lived at Fort Lewis for more than a year, have visited Ft Lewis to work a dozen times since, but never had the time to site see like you did in May. Someday...
costapanos
Excellent Capture! hope you had some good seafood!
carlx
Wonderful capture!!!
tennesseecowgirl
This is beauiful, there is a town near me called Townsend, but it has a bit of a different look since it sets just below the Smoky Mountains, but its is one of my favorite places here to go bike riding. Sounds like you had a great time. Typing on this new laptop is so slow not use to the fancy keyboard. May take me awhile this way to comment on every one today.. have a great day!
BessieB
Wonderful scene!
dbrv6
Great picture and really like the blue of the water.
ElizaB
beautiful capture...look forward to browsing through your gallery to see where u have been
jeroni
Splendid composition and colors my friend
emmecielle
Fantastic view! :)
shadownet
Great scene!
Digitaleagle
Beautiful view and capture looks to be a very peaceful place with wonderful charm!!
drace68
Mount Baker floating above the distant haze makes your pic special, IMO. Thank you for posting.
RobyHermida
Wonderful and beautiful photo my friend.....!!!!
MongusKing
XCellent work my friend!!!
lyron
Wonderful view. Excellent shot!!
MrsLubner
The boats are lovely. The water is inviting but Oh, I love that house. :-) Wonderful shot.
jocko500
look like you haveing a good old time. yes some set backs but that part of life. cool shot here
flavia49
wonderful shot!! I know the road, great views but very narrow and twisted. I've a Makah friend on the Makah Reservation, so I went up there many times. I remember that once I rented a mustang car and, since I'm a fast driver (as the Italians usually are) it was a sin to go so slow with that car.
duncanoooo
Beautiful and very peaceful looking.
sandra46
spectacular shot, that area is fantastic to visit!
NoelCan
Great image..
Faemike55
Great photo!
rawdodb
You're making me home sick.... Did any if the WASP have Oregon plates?... That was the favorite trick of the un-marked ones several years ago... Excellent shot.. Does make me home sick!!
Richardphotos
on my trip to Kansas last weekend a plane passed me by in Okla..I sure hope it was only a civilian and not the eye in the sky.beautiful port Sig
auntietk
What a lovely view of Baker! I wish I hadn't had to work that day. It's nice to see what I missed!
Minda
beautiful place and view..wish im there...:)...superb capture sig!!
renecyberdoc
impressive landscape.
kenwas
Great location and a fine shot!