Harris Beach State Park

    On the way to our next campground, we stopped at a nice little town on the ocean for lunch. After almost two weeks we finally hit the Pacific! The kids enjoyed a walk along a pier and then we took a scenic drive south to Harris Beach State Park. It's located on a beautiful part of the coast with large, rocky outcrops along the beach.

    We set up our tent and then went down the the beach for a foggy walk before dinner. The weather still wasn't cooperating, but this was to be expected for the Pacific northwest. At least there were no mosquitoes at this campground! The night turned out to be a horrible on though, with trucks loudly braking on the highway behind our site, a loud jerk who had to have woken up half the campground around midnight, and a murder of crows that incited my homicidal urges at five in the morning.

    But after a filling breakfast we went down to the beach and enjoyed blue skies and cold waves for the next few hours. A rocky island nearby had a group of seals basking along with hundreds of seabirds, but no tufted puffins were spotted by us or anyone else that was looking. The kids played in the surf until their lips turned blue so we headed up to the campsite for warm showers.

   The thought of another horrendous night gave us the idea to pack up and head south toward Redwood National Park. But before leaving the beach we went back for a picnic lunch. It was comically cut short by a mob of gulls that wanted our food. Poor Sully lost part of his sandwich to a western gull before we retreated to the car!

  

It's a Good Thing Adrienne Loves Birds!