Outdoor Family Adventures: A Week in Port Townsend, WA

We spent one week in Port Townsend, it was the second week that Outdoor Dad was telecommuting but the first that we had spent in 'unfamiliar territory'. From my perspective it went well. Trying to figure out how to organize our days on the boat, how for him to organize his days, and just how to get things done without stepping all over each other.

We spent several nights at anchor, and several nights at the city dock. The nights at the city dock were interesting in how different they were. The first one, no issues, just like being at any other dock. The second, the waves were ferocious. After several times getting out of bed to re-tie lines and mess with things we finally let out a ton of slack into the dock lines, and put out several extra fenders and tied those to the dock instead of to the boat. Then seemed to do the trick as far as our boat hitting the dock where there were no fenders and causing possible damage. Not a very restful night however, we were wishing we were at anchor, but didn't want to go about moving in the dark.

As far as activities, the beach was a HUGE hit.

We went to several different ones. In the picture below, Outdoor Girl and Boy are very involved in a game of 'Empire'. This lasted for days and was very elaborate. It consisted of making lands called empires, and then filling them with people and making towns, industries, and shops and then playing out their lives.

One day we met up with friends and had a grand time playing at the beach. In this picture they found some rope that had washed up and were trying to untie it. They also enjoyed making and playing in forts made out of all the drift wood around.

In the afternoon we hiked over to Fort Worden State Park and explored the old bunkers. As you can see, both enjoyed making my blood pressure rise as they explored and climbed everywhere.

On our walk we came across this statue. We didn't make it, but I am very happy that someone did and that we were able to enjoy it. Outdoor Boy decided that it really needed a baby, and that he could build a baby one. So, he put the small stone on the left side and that is that baby.