San Juan Islands, Strait
of Juan de Fuca, Olympic National Forest, Scoters, Auklets, Murrellets, Orcas.
Are these
places/things you have heard about but didn’t know where they were or where to
find them? We’ve got them all!
We arrived at the
Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge in Washington about noon on Saturday.
The Visitor Services
Manager was the only staff working and since we already had the code to
the entry gate, we let ourselves in and got set up.
We got our paperwork, hats, pins, t-shirts, and (new to us) sweatshirts. After a quick tour of the refuge, we were
told to just take it easy this week.
So far, we have found
this place amazing. If we were going on
vacation this is exactly the kind of place we would seek out.
There is only one
“volunteer pad” so we are the only resident volunteers here. There are about 70 active local
volunteers. We’re parked in the
maintenance yard behind a locked gate overlooking a newly planted oak savannah,
away from any public visitors.
Part of the maintenance yard.
Garry Oak Trees
We’re not sure what
all we will be doing here, we’ll find out in the coming week.
Right now we are going
to start exploring this very unusual refuge and beautiful surrounding area.
Black-tailed Deer
The end!
Teri
Glad you made it without problems. Sounds like a promising start. We can'wait to hear how it goes.
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ReplyDeleteSo glad you liked your first impressions!
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