On to a park in western Washington and the Coast!
Yes, we are walking the beaches again! We love to be on the Coast, but I don't think we could live there--too much fog and rain. But it is sure fun to visit. We had typical coastal weather, mostly in the 60's, rainy, foggy, but with a little sunshine thrown in.
This park is another Leisure Time in the Thousand Trails System, called
Oceana. It is on Grays Harbor, close to Ocean Shores, and the park is on the
peninsula.
The park has only a few sites with sewer hookup, so we had to conserve on kitchen and bathroom water, but we made it the full two weeks and didn't have to dump our holding tanks. The park has a small clubhouse, but no pool or many other amenities.
There is a small laundry room, with two washers and two dryers. As we were carrying in our laundry in, another guest suggested that we could take down the tub and wash board if we needed it! Thank goodness I only had two loads of clothes.
On the
peninsula, there are over 25 miles of fresh-water rivers and lakes. One of the rivers went right through the park. Someone said there were family of five otters that lived under the bridge, but we never got to see them.
The park is nice--small but with a lot of grassy spots. One whole side was down with electrical maintenance scheduled, so it didn't seem too crowded.
We parked quite close to the restroom and showers because we needed to use them a lot to keep from having to dump our holding tanks. It worked great!
There is a path that leads right down to the beach.
It was great and we did a lot of walking and looking for treasures. There were a lot of
sand dollars, but they were all broken by the birds. We never did find a whole one.
The beach was close enough that we could hear the ocean sounds all night long. Sometimes it was so loud that it kind of sounded scary!
We did end up finding some pretty cool shells to add to our collection. We usually save them on our picnic table and then throw them away before we leave.
On the trail down to the beach there is a "finders' tree." It is a place to hang all of the treasures you find on the beach. There were already lots of things on it, from old sleeping bags to a toy truck. Terry found an old
buoy and added it to the treasures.
One day we went for a drive and made the loop around the
peninsula. There were lot of deer. They are darker than the ones in Idaho and they have black tails. You really have to watch out for them when you are driving on the roads.
The deer like to hang out in people's yards, like these are doing. We had some in our park and saw them quite often, but never got a picture of them.
We had several opportunities to put out our
Scentsy products. The manager pretty much let me do what I wanted with it. So, we had a couple of open houses for it.
If the weather was bad, we would invite people to come into our Condo where we had the warmers displayed on the cupboards--
--and all of the scents to smell on the table. It was a fun way to meet and visit with people. We had a few couples who came and stayed for over an hour just visiting. We usually all trade "RV Cards" and will probably see them again somewhere along the road.
If the weather was nice, then we set the
Scentsy warmers and scents outside, which was a really nice way to do it. I am not sure that too many parks will let us do it this way, but it was fun to get to do it here.
The day before we left we went we went towards Aberdeen, WA, to
Lytle's Crab Shack. Someone had told us that they sold really good fresh seafood. They had a sign that said, "We shuck, you suck." Well, the lady there talked us into having our first "oyster shot." It is a raw oyster put into a shot glass (or a little paper cup if you don't want to buy the shot glass) with a little cocktail sauce (or hot sauce if you prefer) on it. You are
supposed to just gulp it down and swallow it whole, but I wanted to taste it so I chewed mine. Terry thought it was pretty good, but I don't think I will try one again. We did buy some steamer clams to steam and some oysters to deep-fry (we also deep-fried some onions.) Terry liked both really well, but I preferred the clams. They were
sooo good. I don't know why we hadn't tried them before, but I don't think it will be the last time!
There is a small laundry room, with two washers and two dryers. As we were carrying in our laundry in, another guest suggested that we could take down the tub and wash board if we needed it! Thank goodness I only had two loads of clothes.
On the peninsula, there are over 25 miles of fresh-water rivers and lakes. One of the rivers went right through the park. Someone said there were family of five otters that lived under the bridge, but we never got to see them.
The park is nice--small but with a lot of grassy spots. One whole side was down with electrical maintenance scheduled, so it didn't seem too crowded.
We parked quite close to the restroom and showers because we needed to use them a lot to keep from having to dump our holding tanks. It worked great!
There is a path that leads right down to the beach.
The beach was close enough that we could hear the ocean sounds all night long. Sometimes it was so loud that it kind of sounded scary!
We did end up finding some pretty cool shells to add to our collection. We usually save them on our picnic table and then throw them away before we leave.
On the trail down to the beach there is a "finders' tree." It is a place to hang all of the treasures you find on the beach. There were already lots of things on it, from old sleeping bags to a toy truck. Terry found an old buoy and added it to the treasures.
One day we went for a drive and made the loop around the peninsula. There were lot of deer. They are darker than the ones in Idaho and they have black tails. You really have to watch out for them when you are driving on the roads.
The deer like to hang out in people's yards, like these are doing. We had some in our park and saw them quite often, but never got a picture of them.
We had several opportunities to put out our Scentsy products. The manager pretty much let me do what I wanted with it. So, we had a couple of open houses for it.
If the weather was bad, we would invite people to come into our Condo where we had the warmers displayed on the cupboards--
--and all of the scents to smell on the table. It was a fun way to meet and visit with people. We had a few couples who came and stayed for over an hour just visiting. We usually all trade "RV Cards" and will probably see them again somewhere along the road.
If the weather was nice, then we set the Scentsy warmers and scents outside, which was a really nice way to do it. I am not sure that too many parks will let us do it this way, but it was fun to get to do it here.
The day before we left we went we went towards Aberdeen, WA, to Lytle's Crab Shack. Someone had told us that they sold really good fresh seafood. They had a sign that said, "We shuck, you suck." Well, the lady there talked us into having our first "oyster shot." It is a raw oyster put into a shot glass (or a little paper cup if you don't want to buy the shot glass) with a little cocktail sauce (or hot sauce if you prefer) on it. You are supposed to just gulp it down and swallow it whole, but I wanted to taste it so I chewed mine. Terry thought it was pretty good, but I don't think I will try one again. We did buy some steamer clams to steam and some oysters to deep-fry (we also deep-fried some onions.) Terry liked both really well, but I preferred the clams. They were sooo good. I don't know why we hadn't tried them before, but I don't think it will be the last time!
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