Today we are just sitting around recovering from yesterday's 11-mile (roundtrip) hike out to the lighthouse on Dungeness Spit. The trail goes from the campground, into the Dungeness Wildlife Preserve where the trail onto the spit begins. There is a half mile trail down to the beach, and then you hike the beach for 5 miles out to the New Dungeness Lighthouse. The hike is level, and the weather was fantastic (although a chilly wind came up a few times on the way, and was pretty constant all the way back, which made for a rather uncomfortable return trip!); I'm totally wiped-out today!
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| Someone must've put this starfish up on the driftwood |
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| Seagulls abound, and they don't seem very frightened of humans; we also saw a bald eagle |
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| The lighthouse, which is still operational and prevents ships from hitting the spit. Before the lighthouse, there were shipwrecks aplenty. |
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| This is the lighthouse keeper's house, added in 1904. Working volunteers live in it now, different volunteers each week. |
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| Back to Reality... |
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