We spent Tuesday on the Washington coast, walking Rialto Beach in the morning with Bob taking photos and Cathryn collecting rocks along the way, then hiked out to Second Beach in the afternoon. Between our morning run and two beach walks, we did 10 miles today. It was cloudy and cooler than Monday, more typical of the beach. Wednesday we moved on to Heart O’ The Hills Campground just outside of Port Angeles, up the road toward Hurricane Ridge. Among other activities, we toured the 60’ motor vessel “Gold Rush”, pictured above. “Gold Rush” may play a role in an upcoming trip for us next week. Perhaps we’ll write more on this later. Thursday we moved to Staircase campground near Hoodsport on lower Hood Canal. We were joined by our friend and neighbor Hobie Denny in his VW Westphalia. Hobie led us on a lovely 5-mile hike along the Skokomish River. Following dinner together outside, we sat around a campfire, talked and had wine, altogether a beautiful day. Friday morning we packed up and headed home, having completed our shake-down cruise. All in all, a very success venture. We’re happy with our choice of the Arctic Fox and were able to try out most of its’ systems (we never had power hook-ups on this trip, so microwave, oven and air conditioner will have to be tested some other time). But the solar panel did a great job of keeping our batteries charged even in cloudy weather without our having to skimp on using inside lights and various small appliances. We even successfully completed a first trip to a “dump station”, an activity we approached with much trepidation. It actually was neither difficult nor distasteful, although we don’t think we’ll ever fight over who gets the privilege of completing this task.
We spent Tuesday on the Washington coast, walking Rialto Beach in the morning with Bob taking photos and Cathryn collecting rocks along the way, then hiked out to Second Beach in the afternoon. Between our morning run and two beach walks, we did 10 miles today. It was cloudy and cooler than Monday, more typical of the beach. Wednesday we moved on to Heart O’ The Hills Campground just outside of Port Angeles, up the road toward Hurricane Ridge. Among other activities, we toured the 60’ motor vessel “Gold Rush”, pictured above. “Gold Rush” may play a role in an upcoming trip for us next week. Perhaps we’ll write more on this later. Thursday we moved to Staircase campground near Hoodsport on lower Hood Canal. We were joined by our friend and neighbor Hobie Denny in his VW Westphalia. Hobie led us on a lovely 5-mile hike along the Skokomish River. Following dinner together outside, we sat around a campfire, talked and had wine, altogether a beautiful day. Friday morning we packed up and headed home, having completed our shake-down cruise. All in all, a very success venture. We’re happy with our choice of the Arctic Fox and were able to try out most of its’ systems (we never had power hook-ups on this trip, so microwave, oven and air conditioner will have to be tested some other time). But the solar panel did a great job of keeping our batteries charged even in cloudy weather without our having to skimp on using inside lights and various small appliances. We even successfully completed a first trip to a “dump station”, an activity we approached with much trepidation. It actually was neither difficult nor distasteful, although we don’t think we’ll ever fight over who gets the privilege of completing this task.
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