Anniversary Weekend in Port Townsend

In mid-December we spent a long weekend in Port Townsend for our 10th wedding anniversary. We had a wonderful time with sun, paddle boarding, hiking, good food, and lots of relaxation. Port Townsend was beautiful and decorated for the Holidays. A major highlight for us was running into our favorite local celebrity, Luke Burbank from TBTL podcast fame. He's also known for NPR's Wait Wait and the Ross and Burbank Show on Kiro (97.3 FM). He was really nice and talked to us for awhile. On the Monday podcast he mentioned us and Carmen! Thanks to Carmen for being so charming.

Self portrait from the PT waterfront.

Point Hudson Marina. We were able to store the boards there.

We had a beautiful afternoon paddle on Mystery Bay (Marrowstone Island). We also paddled along the Port Townsend waterfront from Pt Hudson to Boat Haven.

This picture was taken on 2nd floor lobby at the Palace Hotel where we stayed. We stayed on the 3rd floor this time with a nice waterfront view.

View from our room.

During a hike on the beach at Fort Worden we came across this octopus carcass. The legs were missing, but it was neat to see. We also saw a seagull eat an entire starfish!

We saw some cool shorebirds like black-bellied plovers (pictured above) and black turnstones.

We love Port Townsend!