
Hi! Again everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here with our last post of the evening.
Today, Mom and I went to Ruby Beach, which is in Olympia National Park in Washington and ended the day in Westport, Washington.
Ruby beach was truly beautiful, as you can see from the pictures included here. And the sound of the beach was amazingly loud - as Mom and I hiked down towards the beach (it turns out that going to the beach in Washington often involves a hike of a mile or more) the sound of crashing waves became so loud that I couldn't

even hear Mom when she yelled at me to sit so that she could untangle my leash from a ginormous fern that had reached out and grabbed it.
On the beach itself Mom and I found lots of weird and cool stuff including a half eaten crab (which Mom wouldn't let me finish off for some reason), a HUGE (it's WAY WAY bigger than it looks - about as tall as mom standing up) rusty old canister, a rock with two funky holes, and some really cool drift wood, which Mom thought looked like a fairy hut or something.
After Ruby beach, Mom and I continued our drive down the coast on HWY 101 to Westport, Washington

(which is actually about 19 miles off of 101 on 105 but whatever).
There we walked along the beach trail for about a mile until Mom got so cold that she couldn't feel her nose anymore.
After that, I waited in the car while Mom ate at a restaurant called The One Eyed Crab, which is the first restaurant that she has eaten at on this trip - apparently it was a nice break from "cooler food".
The One Eyed Crab has floor to ceiling windows that look out over the marina at Grays Harbor, on which Westport sits. So Mom sat at the bar right in front of these windows and

was able to watch boats coming in and out of the harbor, men throwing enormous fish off of boats, and other tourists walking by (and me staring at her from the car - she parked right in front of the windows so that she could keep an eye on me).
For supper Mom had 1/2 of a whole crab, salad, garlic toast, and fries - of which the crab was the only thing that she was able to finish because the portions were so big.
After supper, Mom and I went for a walk along the marina, looked at the boats, and spotted a dolphin who was swimming in the marina sort of checking out all of the boats and

whatnot. He was a pretty darn cool dolphin if I do say so myself!
Currently, we are camped at the
American Sunset RV and Tent Resort. Mom really likes it here because it is only $1 more than a State Park campground and we get free showers and WI-FI. She also really likes the people who own the place - they were really helpful and made Mom feel very comfortable when she checked in earlier this afternoon (they also have a cat named Oreo, which I think made Mom miss our kitties at home whom I do not miss at all - nope, not even a little bit...sniff sniff cry cry). We are so

close to the marina here that we can hear the Sea Lions barking!
Well, we had better get off to bed...it is finally getting dark here and the storm that was projected to come in appears to be breaking right over our heads!
Tomorrow we go to Astoria, Oregon!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck


