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Moira in the truck, getting ready for lunch.
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Delaney has to get in on the act.
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Now we're just being silly.
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We're finally at the park, and the first order of business - more food.
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Their idea of a walk.
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Had to stop for the obligatory snack.
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Uncle Ed pulling the wagon, and Moira wants another ride. An inlet between with Indian island on the far side is in the background.
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Looking from the seating area/mini mart to the loop we're camped on.
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There is a slide/jungle gym here now, the girls enjoyed that for awhile.
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Another view towards our camping area, with a kite flying.
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Mommy and Delaney.
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Exploring the beach.
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I believe there's an actually seal pup in the picture. He wasn't very big. Mom was apparently out fishing.
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The girls saw the seal, and were having fun.
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Looking east from the camping area. Our site was a short walk through tall grass from the beach.
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Delaney didn't seem to care she was by herself.
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Delaney's being silly.
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Playing some more. Uncle Ed and Daddy are walking in the background.
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Look Mom, I can lift her. Delaney thinks this is hysterical.
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I seemingly multi-room 'structure' someone had built on the beach.
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Walking down the beach some more. The wagon was okay on the sand, would have been nicer if it had its own motor.
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Looking out from a trail we found.
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Hard to see, there are a couple of steel rails extending over the edge of the bank here, underneath which the bank eroded away.
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Looking east again, with Whidbey Island in the background.
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North to the Pt Townsend / Kingston ferry.
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Ed, trying to find a way down. He finds it funny.
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Pt. Townsend, not too far away.
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Moira and Uncle Ed flying a kite.
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The sunsets were pretty nice, though the first night it was obscurred somewhat by clouds.
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Saturday morning, and we're going for a walk down the beach.
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Here we are starting on our walk which is supposed to take us up the bluff, and into a number of the old batteries and lookouts.
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This is the 'trail', actually an old road bed that apparently gets mowed. My kind of hiking.
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Delaney isn't too happy here, and we've only just begun.
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Looking over the bluff towards Pt. Townsend again.
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There was a searchlight here at one time.
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Rails on the floor extended out past the little fence, recently erected to keep people off of the erroding embankment.
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Looking back with the doors closed.
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"Provided Fire Control & Range To Gun Batteries 1905"
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This was quite the structure, with entrance through the staircase in the back.
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Here were are on the ground floor, looking up to the observation platform. Something was mounted in the center, not sure if it was a gun or search light.
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Another 'battery', this one quite a bit bigger. Each concave area housed a massive cannon - with rooms on eather side for storage.
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Ed is in a hallway beyond one of the rooms.
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The girls entering ....
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An elevated ramp leading out the other side
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This is where one of the canons rested, everyone here would be looking right down the barrel.
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Onto the next site, and Delaney has finally woken up.
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Moira is still running it seems, after another half mile or so.
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This was the largest battery at Flagler I believe. It's the only one we found with below ground storage areas, elevators, etc.
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The back of the battery, looking east.
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Looking at a staircase that leads down.
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A dark hallway.
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A beam of light shining on an electrical panel of some sort.
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With the flash on.
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Looking up an apparent elevator shaft.
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What remained of a batrhoom.
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The top of an elevator, the wheel and motor were here.
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We assume the shells were lifted up and rolled onto this small platform, stopping against the raised teeth on the lower right. Those teeth were connected to a handle that would lower them so the shell could be rolled onto a cart.
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A walkway between gun emplacements.
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This was the only real item we found besides the elevator parts, a sing of some kind.
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The sink in the prior picture was to the left here in a separate room. This exits into the open.
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A broken light fixture, the only one we saw.
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On top of the batteries in the front, and we see some deer, looks like two young bucks.
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Almost to the main parade ground / museum area, and we come across a group of HAM radio operators.
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Moira got to talk very briefly with someone in Ohio.
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We're almost back to camp, after 3.3 miles. The weather was beautiful the entire walk, and continued this way for the rest of the day.
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Getting ready to watch another sunset, hopefully w/o the clouds.
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Group picture.
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Playing tag with the waves.
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Sunday morning, and Delaney is really sleeping in. Riding in a wagon apparently wears you out.
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Moira's having breakfast, just before we packup to go home.