considerations of northwest.
Oct. 11th, 2005 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rwxSo, yesterday morning I had decided that I wasn't going to go to decompression, and that I was going to save my ticket for later on in the year. There were a lot of reasons for this, but first among them were that a lot of the people I'd go to decompression to see weren't going. So, after some consultation, I decided to pick something else that I'd said in the past that I was going to do that I haven't yet.
I took the Edmonds ferry out to the peninsula, and drove out to Neah Bay. I passed a lot of the towns whose names we used for project codenames for @mezzanine and other similar products. It was an interesting drive, I particularly recommend taking state highway 112 at or over the speed limit on a rainy day -- the places where the road has just sort of fallen off into the ocean have been replaced by black asphalt on an otherwise standard composite road, and it can be relatively harrowing going.
Eventually, I got to the Makah reservation, and bought a rec permit to go out to Cape Flattery. (The color of the waves smashing against the rocks offsets your eyes beautifully.) From there, it was a brief drive along something vaguely reminiscent of the Jungo road to get out to the entrance to the park at the point. About two minutes after I got there, some other (anglo) visitors came up, and asked if I was with the Makah -- apparently they'd been trying to sneak around the area and see the sites without paying for the rec. permit ($10).
It was getting on towards twilight as I started to walk down the trail. It was a pretty standard woods trail for the first quarter of a mile, and then walking along a narrow walkway. Footfalls caused the cedar planks to resonate tonally, which was interesting out in the woods. There was a lot of water in the ground, probably late in the season for people to be walking on this trail.
The viewing platform for Cape Flattery is on a stack that sticks out somewhat into the ocean, giving you good views of the surrounding stacks, the interplay between the coastal sandstone bluffs and the waves, and of submerged rocks further out in the water. There's a website describing it, I highly recommend the photo gallery. Cape Flattery is the Northwestern-most point in the contiguous US, so I'd wanted to visit there for a while.
Sunday, the mist and fog were swirling around heavily as I was out on the vantage point. A great view, and the fog added to the sense of peace and beauty there. The trail was about 20-30 minutes walk, and it was towards twilight when I started. It was pretty dark by the time I got back, so I drove home.
I took the Edmonds ferry out to the peninsula, and drove out to Neah Bay. I passed a lot of the towns whose names we used for project codenames for @mezzanine and other similar products. It was an interesting drive, I particularly recommend taking state highway 112 at or over the speed limit on a rainy day -- the places where the road has just sort of fallen off into the ocean have been replaced by black asphalt on an otherwise standard composite road, and it can be relatively harrowing going.
Eventually, I got to the Makah reservation, and bought a rec permit to go out to Cape Flattery. (The color of the waves smashing against the rocks offsets your eyes beautifully.) From there, it was a brief drive along something vaguely reminiscent of the Jungo road to get out to the entrance to the park at the point. About two minutes after I got there, some other (anglo) visitors came up, and asked if I was with the Makah -- apparently they'd been trying to sneak around the area and see the sites without paying for the rec. permit ($10).
It was getting on towards twilight as I started to walk down the trail. It was a pretty standard woods trail for the first quarter of a mile, and then walking along a narrow walkway. Footfalls caused the cedar planks to resonate tonally, which was interesting out in the woods. There was a lot of water in the ground, probably late in the season for people to be walking on this trail.
The viewing platform for Cape Flattery is on a stack that sticks out somewhat into the ocean, giving you good views of the surrounding stacks, the interplay between the coastal sandstone bluffs and the waves, and of submerged rocks further out in the water. There's a website describing it, I highly recommend the photo gallery. Cape Flattery is the Northwestern-most point in the contiguous US, so I'd wanted to visit there for a while.
Sunday, the mist and fog were swirling around heavily as I was out on the vantage point. A great view, and the fog added to the sense of peace and beauty there. The trail was about 20-30 minutes walk, and it was towards twilight when I started. It was pretty dark by the time I got back, so I drove home.
