Grayland: Oysters, Clams and Rain
We got a text on the way to Grayland, “Hurry! I am in my tshirt on the beach”, but by the time we got their the sun was setting, the clouds gathering and it was time to put on a hat. We never took off the hats the rest of the weekend. I tell everyone [...]
Grayland Looks Like a Tradition
For the third year in row, I’ve made the trip down to Grayland State Park for a Spring weekend on the beach. This year, in addition to unseasonably warm weather, a large group of friends rented yurts around the campground, making for more time around the campfire telling jokes. I’ve recommended this before, but for [...]
Willapa Bay Oyster Hunt
Unlike the coast to the north, or the Oregon coast to the south, Washington’s southern coast is one of long sandy beaches and broad shallow bays. Squally and cool, we based our weekend of oyster-questing out a yurt at Grayland State Park. The road from Grayland skirts the cranberry bogs, before rounding Cape Shoalwater into [...]
Grayland
While work certainly gets in the way of actively blogging about life, thankfully, it does little to get in the way of having a life. Grayland is a small town on the Pacific Ocean. It’s about 20 miles Southwest of Aberdeen and there’s not much there. Some cranberry bogs and a bar where the locals [...]