Hi from the Washington coast!

[TerryO]

Originally Posted by Cal Weldon

Yes it's actually a converted canoe with submarine capabilities. I use beer for ballast and surface on the USA side when it's gone.

Knowing Cal, if he's out of beer he just turns around and heads back to take on fresh "supplies". No wonder we never see him.


Best Regards,
Terry

[c2cthomas]

Originally Posted by TerryO

Knowing Cal, if he's out of beer he just turns around and heads back to take on fresh "supplies". No wonder we never see him.


Best Regards,
Terry

Well helllllll - he's gotta turn back for more Canadian beer - Nooooooooo way would he be drinking the USA stuff!!!! Annnnnnnd - he's right ahbuut that!!! American beer = bilge water....

Well - hmmmm - maybe if it is a really hot day out and you need something to cool you off - similar to a glass of ice water - then an ice cold USA beer might serve as a "refresher" - plusssss - that allows you to save "the good stuff" for proper enjoyment later while listening to audio gear.

OTOH - I haven't had a beer for twenty years now - so what the hellllll do I know!!!

[oktyabr]

Ocean Shores, Washington

Nice peaceful little community most of the year and a crazy tourist town for the warmer and dryer bits of it. Locals have said that around 100,000 people show up for the 4th of July (next weekend)... quite a few for a town with a year round population of only 5,100!

Ocean Shores.com - At The Beach Rentals - Ocean Shores, WA; Ocean City, WA; Copalis Beach, WA; Pacific Beach, WA; Moclips, WA; Vacation Rentals and Area Information

Oh, PS, I like Canadian beer for the most part but the Brits have it nailed with theirs! Old Speckled Hen is my favorite

[TerryO]

Originally Posted by oktyabr

Ocean Shores, Washington

Nice peaceful little community most of the year and a crazy tourist town for the warmer and dryer bits of it. Locals have said that around 100,000 people show up for the 4th of July (next weekend)... quite a few for a town with a year round population of only 5,100!

Ocean Shores.com - At The Beach Rentals - Ocean Shores, WA; Ocean City, WA; Copalis Beach, WA; Pacific Beach, WA; Moclips, WA; Vacation Rentals and Area Information

Oh, PS, I like Canadian beer for the most part but the Brits have it nailed with theirs! Old Speckled Hen is my favorite

Don't drown in Duck Lake!
I remember when one of my cousins and I got chased away from the shipwrecked Catala by guy with a shotgun. Later it sank beneath the sand where it sat for 20 or 30 years until it finally came up again. The whole family used to go digging for Razor Clams when there was a good tide, great times long ago.

Best Regards,
TerryO

[Cal Weldon]

What a great looking place you live!

[oktyabr]

TerryO - Wow! You DO know Ocean Shores! Our 14 year old has made a hobby of searching the beach for the very rare lump of black stuff, the first one he found turned out to be a lump of coal from the Catala... still washing up on the beach on occasion after all these years!

Cal - Thanks! We liked the Seattle area too... I've been all over the lower 48 'states (and most of southern Canada as well) and Seattle was/is has always been my favorite metro area, south of the border anyway (I want to go back to Victoria one day)... but... I don't miss having to listen to traffic reports to figure out how long it's going to take to get somewhere and I guess I've always been a country boy at heart...

Currently my work ties me up on night shift and I get home usually around 3-4am. Nothing but a few night birds and occasionally the sound of the surf Once in awhile my wife and I, and occasionally our son as well, will actually go down to the beach to play in the waves and star gaze... at 3am!

On the flip side of the coin it's been an interesting time since we moved here, the first "tourist town" we've ever lived in, and that really DOES mean something.

[TerryO]

Originally Posted by oktyabr

TerryO - Wow! You DO know Ocean Shores! Our 14 year old has made a hobby of searching the beach for the very rare lump of black stuff, the first one he found turned out to be a lump of coal from the Catala... still washing up on the beach on occasion after all these years!

My Grandfather's stepdad was said to have been the first "Steam Donkey" Engineer in the NW. Up 'til then they used Oxen to haul the logs out of the woods. This would have been in the early 1890's. My folks graduated from Hoquiam High School and most of my relatives still live down there.
There's a lot of history connected to the early years in SW Washington.

Matt Peasley, Billy Gould, John Huelsdonk ("The Iron Man of the Hoh") are just a few names that come to mind.

Best Regards,
TerryO

[firechief]

oktyabr - Stick around if you must, but you have just stumbled into the lounge and met the locals. You know what happens next!