Monday, January 14, 2008

January 9th, Olympic Peninsula, Washington

This post is coming to you from beautiful Ajijic, Mexico (pronounced A-hee-hic). We just got our internet installed in our little "casita" so I have a lot of catching up to do. Right now we are enjoying our after lunch coffee and chocolate. We are going to go for a hike on the hill behind us soon, so I will just post for the day where I left off in Port Angeles....


Leaving Port Angeles in the morning on Wednesday January 9, we drove west and then south on the Olympic Peninsula. We had some sun to start, then some rain, then some snow, and finally more rain! On the coast, we were hoping to see some storm waves and we were not disappointed! Although it is hard to tell from pictures,(it was a bit foggy) the waves were cresting about half a mile from shore and were probably in the 30' range. By the time they hit the beach, they had scaled down to 12-15', but still very impressive.


We arrived in Seattle, at Gene and Shirley's house late in the afternoon, and went out for dinner with them to a very nice seafood restaurant on the water, right in front of the yacht club, where we could gaze on all the beautiful sailboats!
I will post again later today, after our hike up the mountain!
Adios!

1 comment:

Pat Shaughnessy said...

The rain, snow and fog were just a reminder of what you are missing! Hopefully you will have beautiful weather in your new surroundings.
Charles is doing just fine and he and Sabina are still trying to decide who's the 'Top Cat'! They both sleep on my bed...one on each side of me. When I go to get up Charles is just 'dead weight'. He won't budge. I pull on the blanket and he just rolls over and stays there. No more problems with licking.