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Wutheringbikes Home -- TransAm Bike Ride
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Tuesday 7th September 2004
From Grayland Beach State Park to Lake Sylvia State Park. A grand total
of 37 miles. Since we are now going to have to leave the Pacific, we spend
the morning lying on the beach admiring the waves and being shocked by the
sheer coldness of the sea. We breakfasted at a cafe with a chart of the
local sea area on its wall - and noticed how the sea deepens rapdily from
the coastal paddling waters to a depth of a mile only a few miles offshore.
There are oozy chasms out there, canyons of blackness to match the ones
on shore. Eventually headed to Aberdeen, which seemed a pretty depressed
and depressing place relieved only by a pleasant library with a dragon like
internet access policy (chucked off after 15 mins). Then on, in diminishing
sunlight, along highway 12, which rushed us, amidst dense traffic, to Montesano,
where, with the help of a very kind local librarian, we found our campsite
in semi-darkness. Lake Sylvia is a picturesque small winding lake, set in
a forest, just on the edge of Montesano. Since today is Guy's birthday,
we ate a meal of Wheat Beer and Olive Pate (Guy's delightful preferred food).
I found my way back to Montesano library delighting in their kindly internet
access policy the very next day (this kindliness is limited by the fact
that the CD drive was disabled, the various ports to plug thing into (e.g.
USB) were unavailable, and you couldn't download anything from anywhere
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