{"id":573893327,"date":"2021-06-25T21:24:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T01:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573893327"},"modified":"2021-07-07T17:50:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:50:19","slug":"catching-up-last-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/06\/25\/catching-up-last-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up, last Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Just like the last few days, I\u2019m writing this in arrears. We ratcheted down our screen time over the weekend and the first part of the week while taking a brief trip. We saw a lot of lovely things and I wanted to share them here. So we&#8217;re catching up. So, yes, this is published for Friday, June 25, the day we returned. But this particular post covers Monday, June 21th.<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember where you were on Monday? I do. Here\u2019s (a lot of) visual proof.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is Bell&#8217;s Overlook in Cape Disappointment State Park. Not so much a trail as a short walk that features the flora of the beautiful Pacific Northwest, a bit of local coastal history and these terrific views.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Abr-lxfwYEs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is in a different part of the same park. We&#8217;re near the place where the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean meet. In fact, you can almost just make out the river in the background in the first shot. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/shKcA_CzOzA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The confluence of the river and ocean make the waters here quite dangerous. So, though it looks calm here, no swimming, if you please. (Also, the water is quite cold.)<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also see the North Head Lighthouse, which began operations in May of 1898. There&#8217;s another lighthouse nearby, which we couldn&#8217;t get to it, unfortunately. They are apparently the closest two light houses on the Pacific Coast, but even still the waters was nicknamed the &#8220;Graveyard of the Pacific.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>There was a print in the place where we stayed that marked the high profile shipwrecks. At least it wasn&#8217;t cheerful. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AYqiOLGLicI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The North Head Lighthouse still works as an automated beacon. If you could go in the place &#8212; it&#8217;s a small, simply place, but closed to tours because of Covid &#8212; you could enjoy commanding views of the Pacific Ocean, Long Beach Peninsula, Columbia River Bar, and the northern Oregon Coast.<\/p>\n<p>We went down to the beach.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bpzr1y0gSnM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And then retired to our own beach (doesn&#8217;t that sound awesome?) to watch the sunset.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eO6dKry8--M\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When you watch the sun slip beneath the Pacific Ocean on the day before you have to return to &#8230; wherever you came from &#8230; you find yourself ready to stay right there, or go somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly we didn&#8217;t go to another getaway place after this one. We did enjoy another day in Long Beach, Washington, and I can milk a few days worth of posts out of those photographs, I&#8217;m sure. So we have that to look forward to next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like the last few days, I\u2019m writing this in arrears. We ratcheted down our screen time over the weekend and the first part of the week while taking a brief trip. We saw a lot of lovely things and I wanted to share them here. So we&#8217;re catching up. 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