I spent several days on the Olympic peninsula at Fort Flagler enjoying the great weather and riding my bike all over the park. The RV parking is down on the beach and the majority of the park is up on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It has military fortifications built during WWI. So every day I rode my bike up this huge steep hill, then rode around the park awhile, stopped at the battery installations and such and then rode back down the hill. Good exercise on the bike and a great way to stretch your muscles.
Here’s a look at the view one of the forward firing stations had of the ocean:
The building a huge arc lamp lived in, it would roll out on tracks closer to the edge of the cliff when used:
A look from the cliff at a cliff side gun installation:
Wandering around this park really took a lot of heavy pedaling. I have that new bike with the 16 speeds so I only had to walk the bike a couple times, usually I was able to downshift enough to keep going.
One of the local mountains over there on the Washington coast:
One of the gun emplacements:
Another view, this place had huge 10″ guns, they were never fired at an enemy so became unneeded until WWII, when they got sent to the Philippines:
And another view:
Saw a deer and her fawn:
Here’s the fawn:
And a couple of random shots, keep in mind that this is near a rain forest and it’s unusual to have a lot of sunshine but it is summer and this portion of Washington is actually in a rain shadow because of the coast range…but not in a ‘cloud’ shadow:
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