Our Point Hudson campsite is on the point. It's a nice spot but available to us for just one night. |
It was uncommonly hot the day we arrived but the heat lasted just one day -- cooling quickly by 20-30 degrees at sunset and the heat didn’t return the next day.
Wayne continues to mention buying a sailboat but he can't be serious.. But seriously, this place claims to be the wooden boat capital of the West Coast even thought my picture is of fiberglass hulls. |
Calm water in the harbor make great reflections in the photos. |
Our site is on the point and we have an excellent view of cruise ships finding their way to and from their ocean voyages.
More of Point Hudson Marina at Port Townsend, Washington |
For this photograph, I was standing on a pier looking back onto the docks of Port Townsend. |
Port Townsend stands at the gateway to Puget Sound. |
This old building has a very faded "Bull Durham" ad painted on the side. |
All was washed away with a hose just after I took this picture. |
Marvin Shields was a product of Port Townsend and graduated from high school here. He enlisted in the Navy in 1962 and was part of the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion II. Shields was chosen as a member of Seabee Team 1104, an elite group of 12 Seabees and a Navy Corpsman who served in remote areas. At an Army Special Forces Camp in Dong Xoai, the camp came under heavy attack by a greatly superior force of Viet Cong Regulars. In spite of mortal wounds and envelopment by the enemy, Shields rescued a comrade and continued to fight to save his friends.
Marvin Shields |
Coming Up...
We have a reason to return to the Olympic Peninsula… When we visited British Columbia last summer we thought about, but didn’t visit the capitol city of Victoria. Wayne had some regret that we didn’t make that trip, so we’ll do it now.
The ferry we’ll take is from nearby Port Angeles. It will take us directly into Victoria where we'll stay a few days. Then we'll move up into Vancouver Island to see as much of the island as we feel compelled to see. We'll take a return ferry back to the B.C. mainland.
The ferry we’ll take is from nearby Port Angeles. It will take us directly into Victoria where we'll stay a few days. Then we'll move up into Vancouver Island to see as much of the island as we feel compelled to see. We'll take a return ferry back to the B.C. mainland.
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