Twenty four hours in Port Townsend, Washington

They might look rather casual, but I was sure this crowd was eagerly anticipating Andrew pulling a fish out of the bay. Sadly that didn't happen.
He did catch a few pieces of eelgrass however.
The forecast was for rain. We got lucky.
Look, a jellyfish! I saw a few of them that afternoon.
They are such cool creatures.
Near the lighthouse shown in the first photo we came across Battery Kinzie.
"Battery Kinzie Fort Worden was the last fortification built in Puget Sound defenses before World War II. It was also the most powerful batteries. Construction began in 1908, some 10 years after the building of heavy gun batteries on the high ground above the Point Wilson sand spit. Battery Kinzie was intended to solve several weaknesses in the original fortification plan. It added two 12-inch guns to the modest number of four already in the defenses. It was located where it could protect the entire entrance of Admiralty Inlet from shore to shore. Its beachside position allowed it to cover the waterway below the fog that often lay just above the surface of the water." (source)
I'm no fan of war memorabilia but I do love me some brutalist architecture so I had fun exploring with that mindset.
Plus there were plants all around; the structure is buried in mound of soil, covered with plants for goodness sake. Lupinus...
There were once guns there, big guns.







Enough of that, time for more plants...

And the beach!
This was so cool!
I love beach architecture too...

The view from our hotel was pretty sweet. I fell asleep watching the ferry pull into the terminal and saw it again first thing in the morning.
I didn't take a picture of the view from our dinner table (we ate here, the bacon jam and fried brussels sprouts flatbread was heavenly), but I did snap one where we parked.
Wednesday morning while Andrew was fishing from the hotel, I zipped back to photograph a couple of houses we'd driven past the day before. I parked across from this one and stopped to ponder the remodel/addition. It's seamless, but for the steps to the right of the hose. That must have been the front entrance back in the day? I really like how they're using the steps as planter bleachers.
This interesting business is what I stopped to document...
That wall! The "matching" pavement with rocks imbedded in it... wow.
Deer were everywhere in Port Townsend. I counted nine of them on my short drive that morning. I wonder if the rock-top helps to keep them out of the front garden? Or is it just decorative?
I think these were baby madrones in the cages. Protection from deer I assume. Maybe bunnies too?
If I weren't tree-stupid I'd mention what these lovely specimens are.
A final photo here, before I hop back in the car and drive on to something completely different.
Like I said, completely different. I'm guessing they like hard angles and straight lines. They don't like plants.
Or maybe they had plants and they were all eaten to the ground by the deer?
Their neighbors to the back have plants, behind a fence. They have a tree in a fence.
No plants here.
Well, almost no plants. These are trimmed up past deer browsing height.
The lines though...