Port Angeles

In Port Angeles I landed a cool room on a bluff overlooking the downtown area and the harbor. From there I could look out over the strait of Juan de Fuca, and watch the ferry arrive from and depart for Victoria, on Vancouver Island across the strait. At night the lights of Victoria glimmered on the horizon. Overlooking the water like this, the view never gets boring. Ships come and go, weather moves in and retreats, traffic moves around. It's endlessly cool.

In the previous picture if you look closely you can see a couple of murals, painted on the side of downtown buildings. The one of the ferry is done in Trompe l'oeil style and it's really neat. The ferry appears to be well in front of the Olympics in the background, and well behind the kids and the dog lounging on the curb in the foreground. There are three of these murals in close proximity in downtown Port Angeles. Like many other PacNW cities and towns, Port Angeles is fairly old but is undergoing a renaissance, at least in civic pride and central city refurbishment. It's nice to see.