Brrrrrr.. We are getting cold at Cape Disappointment Campground! The sun is shining but with the wind whipping up, we are barely comfortable with our shirts and shorts on.  Being Arizonians, we resist wearing long pants, preferring shorts! But this is just too uncomfortable and we decide it is time for long pants.  However, there is only ONE pair of jeans in the cupboard! After one of us tries them on, it is apparent that Tommy’s jeans never got packed! We are going back into Ilwaco to buy fish for dinner, so we will now also look for a store where Tommy might find some long pants. We don’t know how much more cold weather we will have to live through! And we thought our warm Pendleton Blanket was enough but that was just for cool nights.

Ilwaco is the perfect picturesque fishing village. http://www.ilwacowashington.com/ and the drive back into town provides that picturesque view. We find a cute little fish market with a clerk right out of ‘central casting’ and feel as if we have stepped into a movie set! She is ‘weathered’ and reserved but politely helpful with our queries-of the varieties of fish available in the case and of a place we might find jeans for Tommy. We decide on some gorgeous fat prawns for dinner and she offers vague directions to a dry goods store further up the peninsula in Long Beach. “The Dennis Company” is a huge hardware type place with everything but groceries. Tommy is happy to find some jeans that are comfortable and wears them out of the store! We continue driving up to Ocean city, exploring the peninsula but it isn’t much fun as we can’t see the ocean at all along the drive. We find one street that goes out to a beach. The wind is so raw that we drive out and look at the ocean from the car, then drive back down the peninsula to the camp. Even the seagulls are huddled on the ground!