well good early afternoon everyone eric here from nomadic fanatic coming to you from
port angeles washington again on the other side of the street of juan de fuca over there
is the country of canada over there on the mainland over there
uh bear with me today guys i need you on my side we need to find and make sure it doesn't have
any that liquid stuff coming down today because we're going for a heck of a ride all the way to
the northwest most tip of the continental united states today all right thanks for joining me guys
we'll be uploading this video with some nomad internet link below in the video description
you know at first when i walked up to this and saw the ear i thought this was a was a dog no these
are sea lions it's a mama sea lion pup there and there are three babies there really really well
known in fact let's go to the water here you know these lanes are right here it's for the ferry port
angeles is a major port a big uh ferry port here yeah like climb up here real quick so that's where
the ferry will pick you up and haul you over to a british columbia canada over there or i think they
also have some trips that leave here go all the way out to the pacific ocean and then either go
up towards alaska or maybe even down the pacific ocean over there i'm not sure we got down riggers
wharf next door but i'm all geared up today guys this is this is a riding day we're going to be
on the bike for about two hours one way to get all the way up to the northwestern most
tip so again well we've got blue skies there but where i just came from at camp was this
so it was drizzling at camp where the kitties in the rv are at uh but i think since we're gonna be
moving this way we're gonna be okay so let's go for a ride guys i guess this part of the
country is also railroad country as well it'll steel iron worker here hammering in the railroad
nails there spikes so that's cool all right and before we gear up um i had to make i had to make
one change because after we got this fairing put on the stock blinkers lights up here if we
go down they are blocked on both sides so um even though i didn't want to swap out the stock mirrors
i now have blinker mirrors on here that are raised up i just didn't want to get in trouble and have a
cop at the other intersection and see me turning without seeing these bullet blinkers down here so
these still work so the stock blinkers still work these also work up here i'm just not in love with
you know this if i ever gonna upgrade the mirrors those are not the ones i would have went with but
it works all right get my helmet on zip up and we will head northwest wow what a ride guys sorry i
don't have a helmet cam on my full face yet see i just haven't invested in it because i really don't
like my full face helmet anyway i want it to warm up so i can just wear my hat face all the time but
you know i really wish i could have shared that on the map it looks like it's just a straight shot
it is not it is nothing but twists and turns and you're you're going 60 miles an hour and
then it just says 25 miles an hour around another curve and look at this the town of
siku siku washington something weird over here i'll fix the camera situation here pretty soon
guys because i would like to be able to share more perspective from the bike as
we're traveling there's our welcome sign that i pronounced that right siku sayuku
and uh it's one happy fish i don't see a plaque or any information i don't even know what her name
is but she's got pink tennis shoes and a little pink skirt there she looks kind of cold oh and a
pink swimming suit bra there yeah is that made of wood pretty sure yeah it's made out of wood
very nice and she's just you know keeping an eye on all the fishermen down there
all right i am layered up i got three pairs of pants two t-shirts two sweaters and the vest and
the temperature is dropping rapidly guys at the peak of today it was only 58 degrees here and
it's gonna get down into the 30s tonight i do not want to be out at night too because there's a lot
of wildlife back on these twisting roads for the bike so let me finish the last hour of this ride
and get back to you when we get up to the point all right well this is the uh end of the driving
part we gotta we gotta hike in to get there here at cape flattery so um i'll lock everything up
and uh go for a walk like pretty popular today a lot of people going up and down the trail
we're going to see a lot of these huge old trees it's been many years since i've been back on
this trail if i remember correctly it's mostly downhill it does say that it's a 25 minute hike
in and then it depends on how quickly you are back up the hill because i am actually putting
putting putting the brakes on going downhill but man absolutely blessed by the weather gods today
it is beautiful look sun's peeking out up there i cannot wait to see this in the sun oh my
really muddy i'm gonna go over here really muddy trail here oh cool oh cool okay well i gotta test
this out because uh i need to see if i still fit if not i'm gonna have to blame tater tots
here we go
uh oh oh you know what it's it's the vest it's not the tater tots it's the vest
nope not happening wow they built this little raised bridge here i like that
very pretty trail i'm digging it
wow all right it's starting to clear up through here still very very muddy walking trail
i'm gonna ruin my new balance tennis shoes here but it's all worth it okay oh cool path here
and uh look it's opening up through here i think we're getting close
guys yeah we've got our first viewpoint coming up over here ready for this guys
say hello to cape flattery up here that is the pacific ocean out there we're gonna get a better
view here in a minute though okay and coming up on viewpoint number two holy cow i think this is a
good spot to stand and peek wow this is the north side here jeez oh stop it just stop it right now
oh man wow i feel like i should probably just not talk
except it feels like it's the key west of the pacific northwest
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it's a lot to take in it's breathtakingly beautiful here guys you're ever in this area once
again check out kate flattery we are now standing well actually we're here standing on the northwest
most corner of the continental united states right now
we had a long hike back it's probably going to take me
45 minutes because i'm a little out of shape these days it's okay and thank you mother nature
i'm so out of shape guys halfway up just checked my apple watch my heart rate's at 168.
and shed layers so out of shape
it's embarrassing it's not keeping me from trying things nope
made it back up in 34 minutes i think that's pretty good
but i don't want to get caught in the dark so i'm going to gear up start heading back
because i don't want to ride in the dark with deer around those corners so get back to the camp
i'm so cold and ready for summer in the pacific northwest oh my gosh it did start spring
sprinkling on me so i i pulled off at an old old place where i used to uh camp for free right here
this is one of my uh favorite little spots to camp right on the beach and uh
without i mean there's one sign and i don't even really know if i take it seriously or not
actually i do take it seriously so on this fence no camping or overnight parking that's new
um they added some porta potties there but used to be a really cool spot to camp
on the beach here looks like that may be why it's uh empty right now
possibly they're enforcing no more camping here
and that's sad look at all this driftwood anyone building a uh saltwater fish tank
there's a lot of driftwood here it goes driftwood and then rocks and then dark sand and then
lots of seaweed lots i'm telling ya this stuff reeks it is nasty nasty
pretty unique to the northwest though right look at that it's like a weird jelly material
and uh and this weird ball what the heck okay
anyways hey hey hey summer summer summer where are you
not here well let's get back to camp check on the kitties all right so i just got back
to camp here at lyre river no sunshine but none of that other stuff fallen from the sky either
and um i was here and the ranger the warden as they call he's actually called the warden
that's what it says on his truck it's his job title so the warden of the dnr campground here
was here doing some garbage pickups and uh i i asked him a couple questions uh first of all
this site site six i just want to let you guys know that on july 3rd site six will
not be available to the public anymore there is a seasonal camp post coming in and they are going to
be working from about july 3rd until september 1st and they're they're going to put the new
sign back up that says host site over there and uh unlock the power and the water as well as
see this campground there's a jet fighter up there somewhere way up there uh unlike some of the other
washington state dnr campgrounds that had gotten demolished closed forever
especially the ones on the river this one they actually did put money into and um
so several years ago maybe four or five years ago they added power hey sunshine hey summer
is that you summer so they added power to this site they also added drinking water which you
don't even get this at margaret mckinney this is approved drinking water so they had to bring the
power and the water down the hill from the road out there to the campground which was not cheap
and uh when it's busy here there's even a dumpster here a little two-yard container dumpster here
otherwise any other times usually garbage is not provided but it is but one of the exciting pieces
of information that the warden told me is that they're going to be doing something that is first
of its kind in a a dnr managed campground that is basically free with the discover pass and that is
they're going to splice off the existing power and they are going to change several
sites to power hookup sites for rvs and charge an additional fee for that service in the future
just kind of a way to generate a little bit of extra income for the park because like i said it
was a huge expense to bring power and water down the hill to this campground and maintain it um i i
personally am very excited that there is going to be a camp post here it's a voluntary program and
uh he said that usually this campground gets over a hundred applications per year to do it so unlike
margaret mckinney where steve and jenny just get it get to be the camp post every single year
because they've been there this one's different and they let new people be the camp posts every
season and if they don't work out they'll even replace them halfway through the season so um if
you visit here in july or august you you won't get to stay at this awesome site six because it
will transform into a camp post site but anyways guys um i'm feeling really good that was that was
a really nice bike ride and like and like i said you know i'm i'm also testing the motorcycle the
practicality of towing the trailer with the motorcycle instead of the car and stuff and
as long as the weather cooperates i do like the bike a lot i really do it fits it just works
it's fun it's unique there there really aren't that many rv travelers whose only tow vehicle
is a motorcycle so anyways hey liar river you guys want to see the kitties hey terra bear
you know it's only two hours past dinner just so you know it's only two hours
faster dinner time opie did you tell tara it's not even that late i'm gonna do it right now
though i'm gonna put it in your bowl bowls all right guys i missed you guys you handsome devil
you pretty girl yeah pretty girl i know opie and tara are they are their own kitty cats and
cannot be compared or be expected to compare to anyone else but i do kind of miss our our dinner
conversations with with jax that we had all all the time these kitties don't don't seem to talk
too much opie he talks a little bit but um anyways guys i got a few things to put away i'm going to
put the motorcycle away in in the garage there and then going to be only staying here one more night
and then moving on so where do we go from here in the next journey of the northwest well
again it'd be nice if it warmed up but guys you be well i love this campground if you've been here
tell me in the comments below what you think of this campground here at lyre river campground
and from opie and taranai we'll see you on the road somewhere else in a few days bye guys
you