Leaving Victoria, Northern Pennisula. Day 18

Our morning to head out and leave our little neighborhood

and flat

We had to be at the Ferry by 9:30 to be ready for the 10:30 departure. 

 

a cool Green Peace boat in the harbor

waiting on the Ferry 

Our ferry coming in from Port Angles to pick us up

to head back to Port Angles.

There is where our car will ride.

 

Good-bye Victoria 

I love being outside on the ferry.  Feeling the wind,

not having glass between me and the water.  It was a bit

cooler on this trip and I enjoyed some quiet time outside alone.

 

 

It was so quiet on the bow of the boat, just

pushing through that water. 

 

Here we are back on U.S. soil....Port Angeles, Washington. 

 

After stopping for lunch on the road, we pulled up to

Olympic Game Farm where our lives would be changed forever..... 

The sign reads: Stay Inside Your Vehicle At All Times.

And there is good reason!

It started with a simple seagull on our roof and the next thing we knew... 

.....we have a Yak breathing on our window. 

It was $2.oo for a loaf of whole wheat bread, you are not allowed to

feed the animals anything else, we went through three loaves in our

animal adventures. 

They are just all around as you drive down the winding road. 

Next were the llamas, they were a persistent bunch. 

One in particular would run alongside our car, hoping for more. 

 

The sign said zebras may bite, so we didn't roll down the 

window too far. 

 

I liked the Yak's 

Shannon and Deveraux liked the donkey, he received lots of bread!

A bear! 

The bears however could not walk up to the car,

their was a low but electric fence for them.

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In this section of the farm, the sign said, slowly keep

moving your vehicle.... 

.....easier said than done when you have so many heads

pocking through your window. 

I kept scooting my head back and they kept trying

to scoot their heads in closer.  I was laughing so

hard but also a little scared.  We had never experienced

anything like this.... 

We are surrounded! 

This was so funny as the bison were the biggest,

and this one got his head in the window far....Drew

was trying to shield Bobo... 

"Quick hand me bread." 

 

It was just so funny, strange, unlike anything we had every

experienced.  Like, in the moment, "Are we really doing this?"

And looking back, "did we really do that?" 

Check out the slobber on the window!

 

Yes, that big! 

Here they come 

Big noses 

Big eyes 

And long black tongues which honestly were kinda gross to me.

After the Bison in the window, Bobo found a "safer position."

He said he liked it there.   

Curious, kinda liking it and kinda not.

 

 

Not a whole lot of separation 

Deveraux feeling a little more bold.  She would get upset

when she wanted a particular animal to get the piece she

had thrown and another would "swoop" in and get it.

Now he has moved into an even safer position from potential

open windows.  Although we are still surrounded.

After coaxing, Bobo came out from safety to feed a few more.... 

It was like a roller coaster ride...you go down

a hill (feed llamas) then laugh, get your bread ready and get ready

 for a bigger hill (bison)...meanwhile rolling up and down

your window depending on the fear factor and try to

not get a tongue touching your hand.

 

The bears are known for "waving." 

Now feeling a little more emboldened.. 

We went through the park two times.  I was just laughing

saying, that was so fun.  Deveraux wanted to go again.

Bobo, maybe not and Drew along for consensus! 

We had so much slobber on our windows we had to stop

at a gas station just to clean them....mmmmm

Adventure!  We have had some good Bison laughs!

Now onto the Dungeness Spit 

Sentiment that washed up forming land that is

in the shape of a long peninsula....so water on either side

and really big pieces of driftwood all over.

 

At the end of the spit is a 5 mile walk to a lighthouse.

We thought it would have been cool to walk to it,

but too far for the kiddos.  We did find out it is

$350.00 per person to stay for a week, we thought it would

be cool to experience life as a keeper.....maybe sometime.

Deveraux said she made a reindeer (maybe still thinking 

of the animal farm.....) 

We couldn't take rocks or sticks due to a sign posted,

so we left something behind.

 

Sweet Bison dreams!