Happy Birthday to Mike’s mom Tina. Who looks younger than Mike 🙂
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Author: Kelly & Mike
Cape Flattery – the most NW tip in the lower 48s
Since june 5th, we’ve traveled almost 4,000 miles. That’s a little more than two weeks. That’s way too many miles at one time! that doesn’t include the week before when we went from hampton, VA to the mountains of NC then down to south florida. More on that later.
Since we were just in south Florida, we thought “hey, let’s drive up to the most northwesterly tip of the contiguous lower 48.” So that’s what we did yesterday. 
But first, this is how I like to start the day. The boys and I went out for a long beach walk. Then we came back and relaxed while Mike made us breakfast 😀
The drive from La Push to Cape Flattery is a little over 60 miles, but it takes about 2 hours to get there. It’s slow going on winding roads, however you ride parallel to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. That land you see on the other side of the water is Canada
I walked down to a tide pool area to quickly explore. What are these things? They kind of look like a cross between a shell and a sand dollar. I don’t know what they are but they were everywhere and pretty cool looking.
Almost as cool as these huge wooden statues as you enter Neah Bay. 
The Cape Flattery trail is only .75 miles but it seems a little longer as you wind thru huge trees and walk on wooden bridges. This is what you see at the end of the trail. I thought it was going to take you down to the ocean but you’re high up on the cliffs.
There are several unofficial overlooks that stop at the very edge of the cliff. No guardrail, no anything. If you fall, you die. eek! So the boys were in a down relaxing far from the edge. That way I could walk around and look without having to worry about them. Can you spot them? Sometimes they blend so well that people don’t even know they are there.
I also thought you could access the lighthouse, wrong. The lighthouse is over on Tatoosh Island. But we could see it!
I’ve decided to let me hair grow back out (I switch between really long hair and really short) so be prepared for lots of hat or bad hair photos
This is what the wooden bridges look like. Pretty cool. Luckily it was dry and not slippery.Also lucky that is was dry so we could pull off when people were approaching. Definitely not enough room to pass, especially with dogs. 
a quick trip down to third beach
before the camera died. i thought it was charging, but apparently i used the wrong charger so i only got a couple of shots before it died
i wanted to get closer to the starfish but the waves were too fast and i didn’t want to get wet
hahaha, i busted him napping 😉 
the sunset is always beautiful out here. thanks to the coast guard boat for their special appearance. i wonder if i could just do a ride along?
