Detour to Westport

One glorious Friday in July or August, my sister and I got a wild spur of the moment idea to pack up the kids & van and head for Ocean Shores to spend the day since its been about 100 everyday lately.... the ocean was supposed to be a balmly 80 ((and for those whom are familiar with Ocean Shores it NEVER gets above 75...))

So while we were heading south & then west, we saw 2 signs... Ocean Shores - RIGHT and Westport - LEFT. We'll we've never been to Westport, not that we can recall, so we took a wild LEFT and headed to the port.

Excellent idea! As you can see from the photos, we were the ONLY PEOPLE on the beach besides about 100 seagulls. Seriously! We had the beach all to ourselves pretty much all day long. It was not windy like at Ocean Shores, unless you walked around the bend where all the wind surfers were parked & surfing.

We found pre made forts made out of drift LOGS ((hell they were logs not "wood")) and set up base camp at one of them. Another photo shows the larger log cabin we found farther down the beach. The kids LOVED the water. My nephew loved it so much he didn't bother to change his pants to his swim shorts, he just dove right in. My child was more interested in how much sand he could get in cracks & places as well as in his train. Later in the afternoon he braved the crashing waves with me to chase & be chased by the surf.

It was the best! On the way home we detoured to Westport Winery. Found myself a nice Bordello Blonde that claime d"she goes with everything and anything". Well the titled lived up to the smooth delicious taste of that white wine.... http://www.westportwines.com/

I highly recommend the visit. Sis and I are planning to go back and take a few girl pals with us.