{"id":6109,"date":"2016-10-18T03:02:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T03:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=6109"},"modified":"2016-10-18T03:02:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T03:02:54","slug":"the-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=6109","title":{"rendered":"The Northwest"},"content":{"rendered":"

David and I arrived in Seattle, rented a car and off we went on our adventure in the Northwest.\u00a0\u00a0 We couldn’t wait to get out of the city.\u00a0 We are not city people.\u00a0 We headed toward the Pacific Ocean where we had a motel for two nights at Ocean Shores, Washington. Being that is was off season it was not very busy in that area.<\/p>\n

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Our room faced the ocean side and this was the sunset we saw our first night.<\/p>\n

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There was a beach if you wanted to walk about a mile through bushes and beach growth and wonder if there were snakes around.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t think this beach path has been used for years.<\/p>\n

Instead we drove around the town and did some shopping and sight seeing.<\/p>\n

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You know you are in a beach town when there are sharks and seahorses around.<\/p>\n

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There were cute little shops and this was my favorite one.\u00a0 They had so many things\u00a0I would have loved to buy if we had our car and weren’t going back on the train.<\/p>\n

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It was cute on the outside and the inside.<\/p>\n

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I bought this\u00a0 bottle of hand soap just because I liked how pretty it was.<\/p>\n

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Suddenly we started seeing deer.\u00a0 Deer everywhere.\u00a0 I had noticed a sign outside of town that said no hunting.\u00a0 I guess the deer knew this.<\/p>\n

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Does and this little fawn.<\/p>\n

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And these gorgeous boys. They were smaller than our deer here in Indiana.<\/p>\n

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“Aren’t I handsome?”\u00a0 He was not at all afraid of us.<\/p>\n

Everywhere we turned, we saw deer.\u00a0\u00a0 Then we decided to drive onto the beach.<\/p>\n

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We had it almost to ourselves.\u00a0 Just a few people.<\/p>\n

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I love the ocean.\u00a0 There is something wild and wonderful about it.<\/p>\n

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We ate at this place one time.\u00a0 All the locals seemed to like it.\u00a0 You cannot go near the ocean and not eat fish.\u00a0 Well, David didn’t.\u00a0 He ate a hamburger.\u00a0 But I had cod and clams and it was good.<\/p>\n

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The water was so cold the fishermen wore warm, waterproof clothes to fish in the water.\u00a0 They looked like they were freezing.\u00a0 I walked in the water and it was icy.<\/p>\n

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One of my favorite birds.\u00a0 I have seen sea gulls on both coasts,\u00a0 the gulf of Mexico,in Alaska,\u00a0and in the Virgin Islands.\u00a0 They all fascinate me because they are so aware of everything around them.\u00a0 Drop a crump and suddenly you have twenty or more flying around you. I don’t know how they know when food is around, but they always do\u00a0 They act solitary until food is around and then, bam.\u00a0\u00a0 Every bird for himself.<\/p>\n

We left Ocean Shores for the Olympic Peninsula.\u00a0 We didn’t get up there the last time we were in the Northwest and I always hoped to get back.\u00a0 It’s about a three hundred mile loop around it so we decided to take three days to drive it.<\/p>\n

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There are lodges all around it. We stopped at this one to eat lunch.<\/p>\n

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How cozy is this?\u00a0 It was chilly out and a roaring fire in the fireplace was just what was needed.\u00a0 Big, comfy couches and chairs around it.\u00a0 Wish we\u00a0had stayed here.<\/p>\n

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As it was off season, there were a lot of empty tables.<\/p>\n

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We were seated right by the window and could look out at a beautiful lake and at birds eating at the bird feeders.<\/p>\n

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We learned this was a\u00a0Stellar Jay,\u00a0 not unlike the\u00a0blue jays in Indiana.<\/p>\n

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This was our view while we dined.\u00a0 All the Adirondack chairs waiting for people to come sit and look at the\u00a0scenery.<\/p>\n

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Anyone could be a Sasquatch.\u00a0 Just put your face in\u00a0the hole.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sad to say, we saw no Sasquatches while in Washington.<\/p>\n

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Maybe next time we will stay at\u00a0this lodge.<\/p>\n

We continued up the peninsula in search of the Big Cedar.\u00a0\u00a0 That will be in the next post.\u00a0 Stay tuned. Bye.<\/p>\n

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David and I arrived in Seattle, rented a car and off we went on our adventure in the Northwest.\u00a0\u00a0 We couldn’t wait to get out of the city.\u00a0 We are not city people.\u00a0 We headed toward the Pacific Ocean where we had a motel for two nights at Ocean Shores, Washington. Being that is was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6111,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions\/6111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}