A Walk in the Woods to Dungeness Spit

Last week we spent a few days on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, my home, the Evergreen State. We anchored ourselves in Port Angeles, so we could take the ferry to Victoria, B.C.- here – if you missed it.

On our way home from Port Angeles, we stopped for a walk to Dungeness Spit. Not to walk on the Spit itself, five miles to the end, but to enjoy the trail through the woods to the overlook.

From there, I zoomed in to the Spit below just as fog began rolling in.

There were only a handful of people on the Spit, and just as many deer.

I also zoomed in to the historic lighthouse at the very end, with Mt. Baker looming behind. Called the New Dungeness Lighthouse, it’s been active since 1857; more on the lighthouse, click here.

In the map below you can see the ferry crossing from Port Angeles to Victoria. It also shows the Spit halfway between Port Angeles and Port Townsend, looking like a long finger pointing toward Keystone.

Did you know the Dungeness Spit is the longest natural sand spit in the United States? Well now you do!

There was plenty of green on our walk through the woods, so I’m sharing with Sunday Stills #Green and the #GreatOutdoors.

~ Susanne