Flying to Westport, Washington

Finally time for a real trip!  The weather was supposed to be spectacular for the weekend, sunny and fairly warm, so we decided to head for the beach.  There are tons of airports on the coast, so we decided we should go somewhere neither of us had been, and Westport seemed to be as good a place as any.  It’s a small town on the coast, on the south side of Gray’s Harbor (just south of Ocean Shores).  About a mile from the airport is Westhaven State Park, with a couple nice beaches, so we loaded up the plane and headed out.

It took less than 40 minutes to get there, with a slight tailwind.  Here’s the plane after we tied it down.  As you can see, the ramp is packed!  There are about 20 tiedown spots, but we were the only ones there.  I thought this was weird, since the weather was great and we weren’t that early (about 10 a.m.).

Here we are looking like big dorks, with our beach chairs on our backs.  We packed a lunch and some other stuff, not really knowing what the place would be like or what we’d feel like doing.

Kelly insisted I include this picture.  Not sure what I was doing here, really.

Toes in the sand.

A nice surprise: we ran into an old friend of Kelly’s, who was surfing with some friends, so we hung out with them for a while.  After a few hours and some lunch, we headed back to the airport.

Kelly got this picture of the airport, as we turned northeast to head back to Seattle.

We passed just south of the Olympic Mountains, which made for a nice view.

Flying over Hood Canal.

Kelly has mastered long-arm photography.

Lastly, we flew over our house for the first time, on the way back to Paine Field.  It was the first of hopefully many great trips.

All pictures here.