Anywhere around the highway that circles the Olympic Peninsula, especially the north part of the peninsula.

I very much enjoyed looking at this thank you

Id take Kingston to Edmonds and I-5 to BHam.

Depends what way you lean I suppose. Just saying there are places on the east side of the mountains that are left leaning.

Is that a good thing?

Went kayaking at Harstine. There were millions upon millions of finger-sized fish in the water beneath us.
My advice is to use the boat launch just before the bridge. It’s free, and you don’t have to hoof it 250 yards down to the water. The two state parks on the island itself suck.
Oh and there’s a chance of seeing bottle nose dolphins. They showed up in Puget Sound back in the 1990’s.

Consider Anacortes or perhaps even La Conner. It puts all of Whidbey Island within reach (Rosario Beach, Deception Pass, Fort Ebey State Park, Ebey's Landing) but you could also do day trip drives up Chuckanut to Fairhaven and Bellingham. Good hiking in and around Larrabee State Park and Samish: Oyster Dome, Lizard and Lily Lakes, Fragrance Lake, Pine and Cedar Lake. I believe there is a fair amount of mountain biking around Blanchard Mountain, too.

From the Windy Ridge Viewpoint you can see 4 volcanoes! 538 steps to the top, well worth it.

Download the WSDOT app. It will tell you how many cars are waiting in line, you can watch the vessels in real-time, and cameras are at a lot of the terminals

Not to mention the fact that the actual coast is at least a 3 hr drive from Seattle

Grew up in LC, can confirm. Escaped to Seattle as soon as possible to find my people.

so cool thanks for sharing

Yes, and the Pourhouse.

Thanks!

Back in the 50s and early 60s Harstine Island was well known for hunting rabbits. Just a little bit of history.

Most of the state parks that you can camp in have a 10 to q4 day limit. You have the entire state to explore.

Yeah, it’s just not fair that the entire Pacific Northwest has got only one NFL team (a mid one sadly) to support. Like, even Portland has the Trail Blazers basketball team (Seattle has women’s and UW and SeattleU have college basketball, but no NBA) but no football team- or Boise, or Spokane. Now college football on the other hand… we’ve got four teams that are all rivals of each other (Washington Huskies in Seattle, Oregon Ducks in Eugene, Washington State Cougars in eastern WA and Oregon State Beavers in Corvallis) and the Idaho Vandals as well, just across the state line from WSU. And UW and Washington state aren’t all that bad either.

Fun fact: the Puyallup tribal alphabet wasn’t created until the mid 1800’s and was not finalized until around 1970.

So any spelling of “Tahoma” would, by necessity, be using a tribal written language that didn’t even exist when Rainier was named.

While we are busy bashing western civilization for every evil under the sun, let’s maybe stop and think about how useful English is.

Another fun fact: the Yakama tribe changed names a few years back. The tribe did not have a written language and there were several copies of the treaty. Some spelled it “Yakima”, some spelled it “Yakama.” For almost 100 years everyone was fine with Yakima, until the tribe decided it needed to be changed. The city basically said do whatever you want, we’re good. That’s why they are spelled differently.

Seconding the prior comment about taking the Port Townsend ferry to Coupeville, but be sure to make a reservation in advance. Service is limited on this run and between weather, tides, and breakdowns there are often cancellations, which make things worse.

Reservations

This is beautiful! My grandmother’s friend Muriel wrote a book called Seaweeds at Ebb Tide. She had so many samples at her house and we all picked a favorite to identify when we were at our beaches, Indianola, Port Gamble, Belfair. Turkish towel was my favorite and I’m so glad you included it!

Your edit only make your question even more broad and more difficult to answer.

Beautiful photo

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Nice piece! Thanks for sharing. I grew up going to Harstine and fell in love with the sea there. I can’t remember if it was a local store or not but my parents let me buy four diver figurines somewhere nearby which I still have today, 30 years later. Ended up becoming a dive instructor!