stared at the ocean for hours today.  walked with doggies, picked up shells, played with seaweed, crunched the sand, smelled the seaweed, saw the sea lions swimming, watched the waves crash, met a border collie named jack that reminded me of yankee, ate clam chowder, fish and chips and marionberry pie, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

pics of a whale i saw a cape disappointment.  it had died at sea and washed ashore.  so far it is my ONLY whale sighting to date.  sad that the whale died, but as far as they could tell it had been a natural death.