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| Port Townsend Wooden Boat Foundation |
We are taking shorter hops around the Olympic Penninsula now as we have some time before we head off to Victoria. We spent the morning taking a mini tour of Bainbridge Is visiting a beach park and looking at the fine homes with beachfront and a killer view of Puget Sound with Seattle and Mt Rainer in the distance. I am sure on most days this view can't be seem through the rain and fog but on a sunny day it is outragious!
Upon hooking up we ran into our first procedural problem in that the trailer would not hitch up just right and then when I thought I had figured it out the trailer wouldn't move! After a bit of head scratching I figured out that the emergency brake cable had become disconnected to the trailer which causes the trailer brakes to lock up hard. Thankfully just pluging it back into its receiver solved the problem.
We moved up the coast to Port Townsend about 45 miles north and camped at on old Army fort Fort Worden. It has been preserved as a multiple use complex for the town, county, and state part of which is a state park and RV campground. It has old aritillery batteries that used to guard the Strait of Juan de Fuca from I,m not sure who, when they were built in 1908. It is a great way to use the facility in support of the local community.
Port Townsand is a quaint community with victorian buildings and a old town center. My faverite place wasa the Wooden Boat Foundation, where they build and restore wooden boats. It has a school as well to train aspiring boatwrights. Being a wanabe aspiring boarwright maybe someday I'll be back!
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