Adler's Fall 2013 Northwest: Oct. 24, 2013 Cape Disappointment SP/Long Beach Peninsula

Oct. 24, 2013 Cape Disappointment/Long Beach Peninsula

It’s another overcast, dreary day, but we can’t let that stop us. We have limited time here and so much to explore, so we headed north to the Long Beach Peninsula. It is advertised as ‘The World’s Longest Beach’. Maybe it is, but that’s about all it has. We expected the charming quaintness of Door Co. in Wisconsin, but we mostly saw quite old and modest homes, and very few upscale or modern homes, and things were on the edge of trashy. We did see several hotels, much like we have seen at Cape Hatteras on the Outer Banks, NC., and I’m sure they are full in the summertime. We mostly geo-cached today and found twenty-five of them, and two DNF’s. One that we couldn’t find turned out to be ‘a matter of timing again’! I noticed a small group of people further away from us, more toward the ocean. It looked like a man and his girlfriend, and a camera crew and a couple of extra ladies. When they finished, they came closer toward us, and I just had to ask what they were doing. My first thought was that he was going to propose to her, and he hired this group to tape it. As it turns out, they are filming for a Reality TV program on Home and Garden, and it will air in about a month. They are doing beachfront homes, and this couple is to choose from three that are shown them. They all seemed very friendly and willing to talk about their taping. Jim just kept looking for the geo-cache that we couldn’t find, and was surprised that I was bold enough to gather my information. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. We ended our day with a great meal of halibut in Long Beach at a nice little restaurant.