This June we went on our Owen Family Vacation to Discovery Bay, Washington as our home base and ventured out to multiple other places to explore as much of the Olympic Peninsula as possible. We had a great time and loved spending time with each other and the family! One of the days we drove out to Port Townsend. We happened upon this cute little fawn and its mother. I loved the lighthouse there and the beautiful architecture of the buildings in the area.
Another day was spent in Victoria, Canada! I have dreamed of going there ever since I was a little girl. We visited the Butterfly Garden and the Butchart Gardens. It was everything and more than I ever imagined. It was absolutely breathtaking! We also got to see the Parliament building and get a picture with a horse and carriage. On the ferry ride back, Nick thought he spotted a dolphin and as we were watching for it to come back up, it was actually an enormous grey whale!
We also spent a day in Seattle! We spent time at Pike's Place Market, visited the gum wall, walked through the public library, and went to the top of the tallest building there. The public library's architecture was extremely fascinating and cool to look at and Nate thought about how crazy it would be to engineer it. The gum wall is actually quite disgusting but very funny to see. It is an entire alley way just covered in gum for as high up as people can reach. The Columbia Center is the second tallest building West of Chicago. We were able to spend time on the 73rd floor. It was an awesome view and we had a lot of fun playing "I spy" while we were up there.
Of course we had to spend time at the ocean along the Washington coastline. We hiked along the sand to see a sea arch and some seastacks. It was our first time seeing seastacks, they are just awe-inspiring.
We also spent quite a bit of time in Olympic National Park. We enjoyed crystal clear lakes, gorgeous waterfalls, beautiful green mosses and vegetation, enormous trees, and of course . . . rain!
We drove through Mt. Ranier National Park! What an amazing and prominent volcanic mountain. We even got close enough to play in the snow and get a closer look at the beautiful blue and white glaciers! There were also many beautiful waterfalls there.
Another day was spent driving out to say we had been to the very most northwestern point of the continental US. It is called Neah Bay and Cape Flattery. It is on a Native American Reservation of the Makah people. The Cape was seriously the most picturesque pirate's cove I have ever been to and it was fun to look across the strait and see Canada.
