10/12/2026
🌊 Crab, critters, funk & ferry foraging!
What a gloriously Pacific Northwest weekend!
Seven friends, one vacation rental, and a weekend of salty shenanigans in Port Angeles for the Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival!
There was fresh seafood, waterfront wandering, a live funk band serving up everything from Uptown Funk to Proud Mary, and plenty of dancing and laughter.
But the festival was only part of the adventure!
We discovered the wonderfully weird world of hooded nudibranchs, including TWO grunnels emerging from a rock! Because apparently even the tiniest creatures of the Salish Sea know how to put on a show.
There was ferry foraging, because I apparently cannot pass up an opportunity to collect a little treasure from nature.
And then there was Mom’s potato salad! 🥔❤️ A proper hometown visit wouldn’t be complete without a little family love and homemade goodness. We added fried chicken and ice cream and turned it into a feast.
We spent time with Mom, laughed ourselves silly playing Heads Up back at the house, watched the rest of Renfield, and filled the weekend with the kind of ridiculous, wonderful moments you can’t plan.
And through it all, there was that familiar feeling of coming home. The Olympic Peninsula, the salt air, the strange little sea creatures, the forests, the ferry rides, and the people who make life so deliciously interesting.
A little wild. A little weird. A whole lot of wonderful.
My kind of weekend. 💙🌲🦀