Here are some interesting photos of beach glass we found this weekend. My favorites are the parts of what looks like an old bottle. Most of what we find I expect are beer and wine bottles. The top of this bottle and its amber/green color suggests it might be older. We also found one red and a few blue. There's also one interesting pottery piece.
Sunday we packed up the car and started back towards Seattle with a couple of beach parks on Bainbridge Island on our iPhone maps. First we went to Faye Bainbridge Park. It's on the east side of the island facing back towards the Cascade mountains. The video below pans the horizon from Mt. Ranier to Mt. Baker (and Sandra beach glass hunting).
It was a lovely park, but we didn't find much glass there.
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| Nita at Faye Bainbridge Park |
Next we went to Hawley Cove Park. It a conservancy park without much in the way of improvements, but there's a boardwalk across wetlands to a beach with a view of the ferry terminal. On the walk through the woods, we came across this tree that was growing out of a tree stump. We've seen these before in the forest, but not usually with the stump so rotted away with mostly the roots of the tree holding it up.
The beach was rocky with shells, barnacles, and and sand dollars.
We found lots of beach glass, including the usual beer bottles browns and greens, but also some really old fashioned amber bottle parts (photos to come). We completely filled our glass bags and had trouble leaving. This was one of the best glass spots we've found.
This weekend, we stayed at a cabin on Quilcene Bay. We won the weekend at a silent auction at the square dance fly-in in Portland in October. The cabin is right on the bluff overlooking the bay. In the photo below you can get a peek (peak) of the white capped Olympic Mountains over the far side of the bay (right between the two hills).
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| Quilcene Bay from Deck |
Friday we got there in time for lunch and settling in and then a walk at the local beach. We found a few pieces of beach glass but not much. We had some soup we brought with us for dinner and blueberry peach pie we bought from a cafe. Then we played dice all evening.
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| Beach at Quilcene Bay |
Saturday we drove to Port Townsend. We found two beach glass spots. The first was north of town facing the straits. There wasn't much there and the wind was blowing about 15mph, way too uncomfortable for pleasant hunting. Then we went to another city park further to the south: Chetzemoka Park. We found a lot more glass there. It was windy as well, but we could stand it with our back to the wind.
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| Nita at Chetzemoka Park |
You can see Mount Baker behind Sandra.
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| Sandra at Chetzemoka Park |
We had lunch at a beach-side cafe. At home we played games and then went for a walk along the road above the cabin. For dinner we made spaghetti, and then played Carcassonne. We've discovered the hotspot on our cell phones works well for playing games on the two ipads since we don't have wifi. In the screenshot of Carcassonne below, my score is slightly higher, but you can see Sandra has way more cities than me and she whopped me in the end.
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| Screen shot of Carcassonne |
When it got late and dark, we went out on the deck and looked at the stars. They are much brighter here than in Seattle, really gorgeous. Unfortunately, a fishing facility across the bay leaves really bright lights on all night, so we couldn't see the milky way.
Isn't it a bit of luck
that I was born a baby duck
with yellow socks and yellow shoes
that I can go where'ere I choose!
Quack, quack, quack-quack!
Today was the first day in a while that it wasn't raining, so we went golfing. Luckily, Sandra was prepared for the waterlogged golf course.
It was hard to walk it was so mushy.
And the holes were full of water.
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