Westport, WA is around the south side of Gray's Harbor from Ocean Shores. It is famous for its fishing expeditions, cranberry bogs and from what we could tell by all the billboards along the highway, for the Half Moon Bay Cafe, where I had this yummy looking Seafood Louie salad for lunch. (There is some crab hiding under that chunk of salmon.) It was a very good salad.
Looking out at the harbor during our lunch, I couldn't help but take a picture - how idyllic and picturesque - if you biggify it (just click on the picture) you will see that there are about 1/2 dozen people fishing on the docks. It was a pretty nice day - just sittin' there with their poles, flip the line out, reel it back in, flip the line out, reel it back in
It's also a big surfing area along the Washington coast, although the surfers have to be careful of the groups of pelicans that swoop in and out of the waves in search of a meal. They will ride the winds, then swoop down and ride just above the surface of the water. It was fun to watch. This is a small group - sometimes there would be ten or twenty - but by the time they would come and I'd get my camera turned back on, they'd be gone - I got lots of pictures of empty sky on this one...
While The Shepherd went for a short walk around the harbor, I sat in the glorious sun and worked on the blanket that I am making for my niece. Just acryllic verigated baby yarn - it's going to be very cool looking when I get it finished, if I don't say so myself.
3 comments:
The more I read on the shetland blogs, the more I wish that I had visited the NW part of the US. You take such beautiful pictures.
My SIL lives in Grays River and I'll bet both places are named for the same Captain Gray. Because we didn't come up this year, I'm in fresh oyster withdrawal!! We would always get some at Ilwako - yum!!
It sounds like it was a neat trip (dispite the last day)! It makes me think of growing up around the Great Lakes - gosh! How I miss water! :)
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