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Haunted Scrapyard

Posted on October 2, 2012 | 1 comment

Are all scrapyards haunted or just this one?


I have toured a few haunted houses without wetting my pants, but this is a new one for me—a haunted scrapyard (see photo). For the last few years, Belfair Auto and Truck Wrecking on SR 3 has been scaring the Holy bejesus out of anyone brave enough to visit their automobile graveyard on weekend evenings in October. According to the man I talked to, the gore is unsurpassed. Bringing kids is not recommended. Their web site is called Scrapyard Massacre.

This sounds a lot scarier than Christine, the Stephen King novel and movie about a haunted 1958 Plymouth.

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Duckabush II

Posted on September 27, 2012 | 2 comments

My oldest brother and his wife have fond memories of a backpacking trip we took along the Duckabush River in 1990. They still talk about it. So when their son visited me earlier this month, it was important for him to see the Duckabush. He had heard too much about the river not to go there.
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My Knees Held Up

Posted on September 8, 2012 | 3 comments

Marmot Pass from the east


The photo and this post’s tags relate to what people might be interested in—a day hike to Marmot Pass in the Olympic National Forest. However, what’s important to me is that my knees made the 10.6-mile roundtrip with its 3500-foot gain (and loss) in elevation without complaining. A couple of days later the rest of me is still sore. But my knees are fine.
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Buoy ID

Posted on August 29, 2012 | 1 comment

Next time add an email address.


The latest addition to my buoy collection has almost enough information for me to commit identify theft. About the only things missing are a social security number and a date of birth. In the photo above it’s the one covered with black Magic Marker writing.
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About Those Missing SR 16 Miles

Posted on August 22, 2012 | 2 comments

SR 16, the busy Washington state highway that connects I-5 in Tacoma and SR 3 in Gorst, is missing a couple of miles. I don’t mean that it’s not all there, just that there isn’t as much of it as you might think if you go by the official state mile posts alone.
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Golfing in Manette

Posted on August 20, 2012 | 2 comments

Concentrating like a pro


There’s no place to play golf in Manette. But depending on your range of thinking, there’s a place to practice. At least there is for the man in the photo.
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A Creative Car Show Ballot

Posted on August 13, 2012 | 1 comment

Lots of ways to win


I haven’t been to the Taste of Hood Canal Car Show for several years. Since the last time I attended the show, the organizers have expanded the ballot for voting on what used to be a simple people’s choice award (see illustration). It might be the most creative car show ballot around.
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USS Long Beach (1959–2012)

Posted on July 13, 2012 | 3 comments

USS Long Beach—hiding in plain sight


The USS Long Beach, the Navy’s first nuclear-powered surface ship, had been quietly moored in Bremerton, Washington, since being deactivated in 1994. Not any more. This week the big cruiser was towed away from its berth at the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (see photo), ending any chance for an easy photo op.
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A Mossy Roof

Posted on June 22, 2012 | 2 comments

A nurse roof?


Nurse logs are common in the rain forests of the Olympic Peninsula. However, until this week I had never noticed that two old cabins at NAD/Soroptomist Park in Bremerton have what could be considered nurse roofs (see photo). The roof in the picture won’t go through the complete nurse-log cycle, but it will be interesting to see how tall the Western Hemlocks that sprouted there get before it collapses or the building is torn down.
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Dancing Man in Port Orchard

Posted on May 11, 2012 | 2 comments

Where’s your smart phone?


Readers of the Mud Bay blog know I can’t resist stopping to take a picture whenever I see a dancing man in Kitsap County. Clearly I haven’t found all of them. I spotted a new one today during a rare weekday trip to Port Orchard. The dancing man outside Talk’s Cheap on Bay Street (see photo) might have been jumping for joy for months about the store being an authorized Verizon retailer. I wouldn’t know. I only pass through the county seat on Sundays on my way to Annapolis, where I park and ride my bike along Beach Drive.

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