Back in 2016, we were invited up to a friend of a friend’s house on Lake Crescent. The house was technically inside the national park - one of those grandfathered in things before the Olympic National park included Crescent lake.
2016-08-07
We took the ferry over to Bainbridge island and the captain called out an unfortunate soul who grounded his sailboat on the wing point shoal. Id didn’t understand why or the implications of this at the time, but this is really bad - especially if he was going at speed. Hopefully he was going slow and didn’t damage his keel but either way he was going to be stuck there for the next at least 12 hours but probably 24. Bad day…
We ended up arriving at Lake Crescent - which is a beautiful lake with a road along the southern shore, which we have driven many times and been impressed by. The house was at the western end of the lake on the north shore. The house was only one bedroom, but there was room for several tents which was where we ended up.
2016-08-08
The weekend was taken up with swimming, boating, and general merriment. The dock was the the epicenter of the weekend, we embardked from here on all of our adventures and we would often have meals hear or lounge inbetween very cold swims.
The lake was gorgeous - the fog & surrounding mountains really added to the effect.
We went rowing with Oakley a few times as well, she wasn’t a huge fan at this point but she got used to it eventually.
And Oakley had probably the best view from dinner in her little life.
That’s it! I didn’t take many picures on this trip, but it was memorable - so into the blog it goes!