Our New Travel Plans

For the past three months, Karen and I have been at home in Vancouver.  We both had medical problems and surgeries.  No travel during this period of 2023.  

Karen and I plan to stay two nights in Pendleton, Oregon, in late April
Trip with Mick and April to Long Beach WA for clamming in May.
Karen and I plan to stay three nights at Quinault Lake, Washington, in May.

Here is a Cloud Hands Blog repost from September 2022.  It was a trip to Cape Disappointment State Park for Yurt camping.  

I was very surprised to find that the campground was full of trailers, RVs, large vans, small vans, trucks with campers, and a few folks in tents.  Very overcast, foggy, and cool all day.  I walked around all day in the Park and accumulated 10,945 Steps.  Drizzling at times: rain expected on Wednesday.

I enjoyed practicing Taijiquan in a flat area along the North Jetty at the Mouth of the Columbia River.  The North Jetty is nearly two miles long.  A paved road leads halfway, and many sandy trails take you out to Benson Beach and the Park campgrounds.  I made some decisions about my Taijiquan goals for 2023 and 2024.  

Few stores were open in Port Ilwaco.  I did enjoy browsing at "Time Enough Books" in Ilwaco.  I purchased two excellent books about the Sea:

"The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World."  By Lincoln Paine.  Vintage Books, 2013, 744 pages, extensive notes, bibliography, and index.  VSCL.

"Waves and Beaches: The Powerful Dynamics of Sea and Coast."  By Willard Bascom and Kim McCoy.  Patagonia, 1964 and 2020, 401 pages, index.  VSCL. 

Home for four days, Yurt Y88, Cape Disappointment State Park.

Inside, dry, locked tight, warmed by a small electric heater.
I bring my own 2'x3' desk, chair, books, Jackery power, toys, games, crafts.
I bring plenty of extra lighting.
For food I eat oranges, apples, dried apricots, nuts, crackers, coffee, dried beef, cookies.

Cozy Yurt Camping.
Y88 had a sturdy small 3'x3' table and two woods chairs. 
Sofabed OK.  Used bunk bed to store all my gear.  No wastebasket.

I drove and walked the road
along the North Jetty.  Very windy.

My Taijiquan practice area.

200 yards west of my Yurt Campsite
is a couple of miles of sandy beach.
Lots of driftwood from King High Tides.

 

There is a long drive from the Visitor Center
to the Yurt Campsite.  Many sloughs, lagoons, lowlands, trees, shrubs,
mosses, and grasses along the roadway

Black Lake north of Ilwaco
Many trails around the lake.

Cape Disappointment State Park  CR  Camping, Yurts, Fishing, Trails     Images

Cape Disappointment Lighthouse  In operation since 1856. 

Cape Disappointment Weather

Lewis and Clark Interpretative Center   History     Wikipedia

Discovery Bicycling and Walking Trail

Fort Canby State Park is the old name for Cape Disappointment State Park   

Travel Adventure and Ghost Tales and History  

North Head Lighthouse     Images

U.S. Coast Guard Station  

"Cape Disappointment State Park (formerly Fort Canby State Park) is a public recreation area on Cape Disappointment, located southwest of Ilwaco, Washington, on the bottom end of Long Beach Peninsula, the northern headlands where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. The state park's 2,023 acres (819 ha) encompass a diverse landscape of old-growth forest, freshwater lakes, freshwater and saltwater marshes, and oceanside tidelands. Park sites include Fort Canby, the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, North Head Lighthouse, and Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.[2] Cape Disappointment is one of several state parks and sites in Washington and Oregon that are included in Lewis and Clark National Historical Park.[3]"

   I have camped here twice.