Rainy days and Washington Shores

Well Wednesday was still raining and blowing so we decided to hunker down in the condo and watch movies. The Sons of Anarchy series is quite good. On Thursday it was still raining in the morning so we decided to go to Ocean Shores, Washington up the peninsula from Long Beach. So we headed North over the bridge at Astoria.

 

This bridge is over 2.2 miles long; it goes over the entire Columbia River. It is hard to get a picture of how high you go up but as you can see by the tankers it is high enough for them to go underneath it.

 

 

 

We have only gone to Long Beach so this was new country we were travelling to. We went through, South Bend, Raymond and Aberdeen, we didn’t go North to Forks though. Len will have to wait for another trip to get his Twilight fix. There are a number of bays up in this area, which we found out are great for Oysters and Crab. This is Willpa Bay, the tides cover the bay when it is high and leaves the mud when it is low.

 

It took us a couple of hours to make it to Ocean Shores, which is the only town on the top part of Grays Harbour.  Our condo is at the end of the peninsula, there are four floors and the top two look right out on to the ocean. They say that in the winter the storm watching is fantastic, might have to try that next year.

 

 

The town of Ocean shores is very touristy; all the towns right on the coast seem to be that way. By the end of the day the rain had blown away and we had sunshine.

We travelled back down to Long Beach and discovered that they grow cranberries in the area. We tried to visit the cranberry museum but it was closed for the winter but we did find out how they irrigate the fields so they can grow the cranberries and then flood them so they can pick them, they make their own little bogs.

Looks like it is going to be nice for the rest of the weekend. We are headed back to Astoria to see the column and check out the water front.