Item number 4,732 from The Grand To-Do List:
Hike to the very tippity-tip of Cape Flattery,
the northwesternmost point of the continental States,
stand leaning into the wind and rain, back to the trees,
discovering how sea stars and cormorants spend their Mondays,
gazing out to open sea with the spray crashing in your ears,
erosion and subduction shaping the world beneath your very feet,
and all three thousand land-mass miles extending behind you:
Check.
COOL!
That looks magnificent! Isn’t it wonderful to check something off your bucket list?
The ocean has such a way of making me feel small. I love it!
[...] on the northeastern tip of the Olympic Peninsula (close on a map to but in reality very far from Cape Flattery) and guards Admiralty Inlet, where Puget Sound ends and the Straits of Juan de Fuca begin. [...]