My sister-in-law asked me if I were interested in going to a king tide. Salty sea air? Of course! I had never been to Westport before. We always go to Ocean shores, probably out of habit more than anything else. And it's close. Westport isn't any farther, just a left turn when we'd normally go right. It was a king tide with huge waves predicted. I got to Breezy's house about 9 and off we went. The traffic was not bad at all. High tide was at 1:00. We had plenty of time. Oh, I forgot to say it was freezing flippen cold! Literally! We both had layered up. Warm coats, leggings under our jeans, so on and so forth. Breezy had on a beany. THAT would have been a good idea for me. I really don't like hats though. So my head/ears were very cold.
We started out in the lookout tower. It really is beautiful there.
These next pictures are where the fun really started. We climbed on the breaker wall. We saw the rocks were wet, but we didn't process that info well. So... the last picture is as the waves washed over us on the breaker.
After our soaking we went to the car to wipe up. LOL We were both worried about our camera's. We wiped off and kept at it until the visible water was gone. We are both pretty sure salt water isn't good for cameras. I had a dry coat to put on. Breezy did not. She was standing and I was kneeling on the rocks so she got the worst of it. Her whole legs were wet. Not fun! But we muscled through. There were still pictures to take! We both were a little disappointed in the waves. She was led to believe they were going to be 10 feet plus waves. They were not. BUT there is not a bad day at the ocean.
As we headed up and back down the beach, we saw a dead seal. I'll spare you the pictures. She hadn't been there terribly long and had no sign of why she died. It was sad. Even if it is the nature of life. We drove around for a bit. We were going to go out over the jetty to the ocean side but neither of us felt too much like hiking after the soaking we had. We were cold.
We of course, had to have fish and chips. It was wonderful! We sat under a heater, so it was really special. LOL
After lunch we had to go find the seals we'd been hearing. I have a video of them talking but I couldn't get it to load. So just imagine it.
No whales, but we didn't go to the ocean side. So, a pretty sunset in our mirror as we drove home made for a wonderful day!
Happy New Year
Peace
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