Washington Spring Break Pt. 3 of 9

The drive through Whidbey Island was interesting, but we were mostly just passing through to the Port Townsend-Keystone ferry.  Once we arrived at the ferry spot, we had about forty-five minutes to an hour to spend exploring the coastline.  The above picture has Gage exploring the driftwood that has washed up on the shore over time.

This was looking the other direction down the shore.  Lots of seagulls chilling and an old dock that was quite past its prime.  The kids quite enjoyed just looking for shells, rocks, and other random junk on the shore.

I am not sure if this was just Grandpa Mike's idea or something he saw from other people, but we brought a puzzle up the community area and started working in on the ride.  We got some of the outline done and some various pieces, but when it was time to go, we just left the puzzle for someone else to keep working on.  What a great idea and helped to pass the time.  Unfortunately, as you can see, when on the ferries we were instructed to have our masks on...though the air was flowing freely through the place, and it wasn't crowded at all.  We tried to do our best to follow the rules!

We finally arrived in Port Townsend!  It's this cool little port town with lots of sailing boats.  It wasn't necessarily raining but it was kind of misting on us and there was a decent amount of wind keeping it quite chilly.    Gavin is doing his best to cover his ears to keep them warm!

Once again, though, these guys have never found a beach they didn't like to explore.  The spent quite a while looking through the rocks and sand and finding random things and critters.

I took this random picture of the barnacles on this old rotted out pier.  If you look closely, you can see this starfish that got stuck out of the water as the tide receded.  We spent a few hours exploring the city and then snuck into this small coffee shop for some hot chocolate before it was time to take the last ferry back to where we started.  Quite the day and a great time exploring!

With a bit of sunlight still present when we got back to the house.  These guys snuck into the open space beyond my parent's fence and started trying to live like survivalists!  They quickly put together this angled hut anchored by a row of sticks and were promptly coating it in fern leaves.  At least they learned something from all these survivalist shows and youtube...