Today, we finally woke up to clear skies! We now understand
why people in the rainy northwest drop what they are doing and head outside
when the rain stops. We tried an experiment with the camper last night – since
we were “boon docking” (camping without hookups) we decided to leave the heat
off over night. When we woke up, we turned the heat on before getting out of
bed. The advantage was that we never heard the heat cycling on and off and had
one of our best nights of sleep yet. The view from the camper when we woke up
was spectacular – the view over Hood Canal without rain. We had a leisurely
breakfast and then took a short drive in the car (less trailer) to visit a
waterfall. We got back to the campground, hooked up the trailer and headed up
to Port Townsend – a historic town on the water. We parked the trailer in a
visitor lot and took the bus downtown where we wandered around, bought some
souvenirs, had a lunch in Fin’s Restaurant and headed out to our next
campground. We drove a short distance to Fort Flagler where we were able to
camp with a gorgeous view of the bay. While sitting out in the sun, we saw the
Whidbey Ferry going back and forth and we even saw a cruise ship coming in!
While sitting under the awning, we had little rufous hummingbirds buzzing us.
We took a walk before sunset to check out the fort (which was interesting as it
was completely covered with grass on top for camouflage). On the way back, we found out that not only
does the vegetation grow well with all the rain, but so do the mosquitoes! By
dark, we were back in the camper getting ready to call it a day until tomorrow!
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