Westport is a cute little beach town and while it’s small, you can find a number of activities to keep you busy. You can shop at a few local stores or eat lunch while enjoying views of the port and ships and sailboats nearby, walk the boardwalk at the port, walk the beach, surf or boogie board, visit the museum and lighthouse, go charter fishing or walk the paved dune trail.
On this visit, I enjoyed taking photos when the waves were willing to offer me a photo opportunity and Jozee enjoyed the beach by the bay, where she found nice sand she especially enjoyed digging in.
Or letting the wind run through her ears.
We’ve been to Westport about every other year and a few years ago we even went charter fishing, which was a fun experience. Of course, dogs aren’t allowed and this was before we had Jozee. Given the fact that we had visited Westport often, where we always visited the port, the shops and museum and explored the beach along the bay, we were surprised during our last trip to discover we hadn’t visited all that Westport had to offer when it came to beaches.
When we were ready to explore some more, we continued to walk west on the beach and up into and over the dunes. Once we reached the top, we were welcomed by the most spectacular sight…the ocean!
We hadn’t realized that Westhaven State Park was located in this area or that it would give us access to the ocean and a beautiful surfers’ beach. That’s why we explore…and also why we should look at our maps more often.
The area of the beach on the ocean side was beautiful and during our visit the weather was perfect, which is a treat for the Washington coast. Jozee met a number of dog-lovers and other dogs as we trekked over the large dune to get to the beach. This visit was pre-Covid when Jozee would receive attention from a number of people we’d meet along the way who didn’t mind chatting for a few minutes.
Once we made it down to the beach, Jozee enjoyed watching all the activity between kids playing and visitors swimming or surfing.
We could have played at this beach all day, but we wanted to get a visit in at Grayland Beach before heading home because we hadn’t yet visited that beach.
On the way there, we visited the campground at Grayland State Park and it was a nice find. We like to check out the local campgrounds near areas we enjoy visiting, in case we’d like to stay there, and this campground ticked a lot of boxes. They even had yurts to rent. It is definitely a park we wouldn’t mind camping at someday.
We arrived at Grayland Beach to discover it was much like Ocean Shores or Pacific Beach. There were a couple of kite vendors selling cute wind socks and other items and we enjoyed browsing for a bit while we decided whether or not to head home. It wasn't difficult to decide. The beautiful day was turning into a nice evening, which was the deciding factor, so we spent the rest of the day relaxing as we waited for the sun to go down.
We ended the day thankful to have enjoyed beautiful weather on our coast while we explored old haunts, as well as new.
