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Published: June 14th 2009
13th June, 2009. Port Townsend, Washington.
Another nice day, breakfast and then a walk downtown, walked through the older part of town, old port warehouses etc, lots of restaurants, tourist shops, then down past the marina's and boat repair area's, most of the fishing boats out of the water, looks like they are nearly ready to go back in for the fishing season. The Visitor Center gave us some info on the local Farmers Market so off we went. No bargins here, the Farmers Market was from Dream world, charging prices that were dearer than I have seen anywhere in USA. A punnet of strawberries that were incidentally going off $4 ($3.49 for a punnet twice the size down the road in the Supermarket) - may have been organic (doesn't alter the fact they were going off).
There are two parts to the town, the lower Port area and the upper town area (up on the hill overlooking the water ways). Some beautiful old homes up here with great views.
Then down to the Port for a late lunch, full marks to the restaurant, Sam had Oysters (they were huge, 3 times the size of Bluff and nice), and I
had Crab and crayfish cakes, also very nice.
We had heard about the Oysters here, so it was back to the wharf area to the fresh fish shop and two punnets (big) of Oysters, and a huge crab later we headed for home. Dinner is sorted for the next couple of nights.
Since being here we have seen six cruise ships headed out to sea, apparently they are off up to Alaska for the cruises around the Ice.
From where we are parked we can see Vancouver Island, part of Canada, so close yet so far.
Port Townsend is a beautiful place, I could easily live here, close to the Ocean, good fishing etc.
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