Cape Disappointment to Port Townsend

Cape Disappointment to Port Townsend, WA

Sunday, May 18. Yet another sunny day. Four in a row. We’re headed for the Lake Sylvia SP near Montesano. Drove through the city of Raymond. They had a multi-use trail with metal sculptures all along it. Very pretty. Arrived at the campground shortly after noon time. Lake Sylvia SP is located, as you would imagine, on a lake. Clear, cool water. Our campsite has the best location in the entire campground. Look at the photos. We took a walk around the lake and spend the rest of the afternoon reading and enjoying the view. Talked about what campground had our all time favorite view. A very tough question. We’ve had the good fortune to get some of the best campsites in America. Traveling off season is the key. Here we arrived on a Sunday afternoon. The weekend campers had mostly left and schools not yet out. The best time to snag the prime spots. Memorial Day is this coming weekend. Last week I called about getting reservations at some state parks. Booked as I suspected, so we’re staying in a private campground next weekend.

Monday: Back to our customary weather; cool and overcast. The drive to the Port Townsend area was mostly through pine forests. Stopped at Lake Leland, a county campground. The campground was just OK plus the lake had a warning sign about blue-green algae. Warned that children and pets should stay out of the water because the algae was toxic. We continued to the Lower Oak Bay Campground in Port Ludlum; another Jefferson County park. The campground was very hard to find; there were a few small signs. We got lost for about 30 minutes. I were about to give up when Carol said to turn this way and sure enough, there it was. The campground is very, very basic. It’s on a sand spit going out into Oak Bay. We had the place to ourselves. The view was of the bay on one side and a tidal marsh on the other. We enjoyed it.