Take a Walk
Location: Lake Quinault, Grays Harbor County.
Length: Half-mile nature loop and one-mile homestead loop.
Level of difficulty: Level to gentle dirt/gravel trail (muddy in spots after rains).
By Cathy McDonald | June 13, 2002
OCEAN SHORES When considering a horseback ride along the Pacific by Ocean Shores, you might think there are only two experiences possible one ecstatic, the other absurd.
The fantasy version, in slow motion, is all hooves pounding, kicked-up surf, aqua foam on bare legs (the water's warm). It's the primal huff of a powerful animal and your own excited gulps of salty air. And you are glorious in the gallop, hair in a tumult, joy itself on a horse running free.
By Connie McDougall | June 13, 2002
PORT TOWNSEND A shrimp flops out of the trap onto the deck and assumes a ferocious mood, boxing the air with spidery front legs as if to say, "Lemme at 'em."
A sea urchin draws up into a defensive, spiny green ball all the better to ignore you, my dear.
And a red rock crab, upside down in Jim Norris' hands, just plays possum, as his kind tend to do.
By Sally Macdonald | June 13, 2002
Forget the sensible sedan. The Sea to Sky Highway in southern British Columbia provides the kind of summer drive that makes you long for a little red convertible with a great big sound system.
The 75-mile route its less romantic name is Highway 99 winds north from Vancouver, B.C., to Whistler, climbing gradually from tidewater to the resort village at 2,200 feet.
By Kristin Jackson | June 13, 2002
