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Port Angeles
 Port Angeles is a jumping off spot for the Olympic Peninsula or the ferry to Victoria, British Columbia, just across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Kids will have fun on the ferry ride from Port Angeles to Victoria, a 90 min. trip with great views of snow covered peaks on the Olympic Peninsula. Tip: When you travel from the U.S. to Victoria, you'll need passports or other official documents to enter Canada.
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      Tip: While you're waiting for the ferry, here's some fun things to do at the City Pier, close to the ferry terminal.
Port Angeles
    Playground and sandy beach – Run around this super little playground with a bright red ship and slide, plus picnic tables, grass and shade trees. Next to the playground is a long sandy beach with tiny waves lapping at the shore, a great place to relax before the boat comes.
      Feiro Marine Life Center – Check out the baby giant Pacific octopus, and local marine life such as sea otters. In the touch tanks are bright orange sea stars or mussels and other intertidal sea creatures. Open in the summer only, closed Mon.
      Climb up the viewing tower - Climb to the top of this three story blue and white viewing tower for views of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Olympic Mountains and Cascades to the east. Staring into the Strait, kids can pretend they are 18th century Spanish explorers who charted these waters and named Port Angeles.
      Olympic National Park Visitor Center - Stop into the Visitor Center to get maps for Olympic National Park and check out exhibits. In the Discovery Room kids will find a mini-ranger station, touch tables, activity drawers to learn about homesteading, rocks and wildflowers in the park. Outside, take a forest stroll on Living Forest Trail (half mile round trip, strollers okay) or go down to the Peabody Creek Trail (half mile loop).
  Dungeness Spit (Sequim) – In the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge, hike through leafy green forests twittering with birds down to the beach and the long narrow Dungeness Spit. This long sandy beach is the perfect place to build forts in the driftwood and make piles of smooth stones, or walk down the beach toward the lighthouse (it’s about five miles to end of the spit). Look for turkey vultures or majestic bald eagles soaring in the air, just a spectacular sight! Dungeness Spit is a wonderful place to while away a summer’s afternoon.
   

Fun food –
     

Editor's note: Dungeness crab. While camping on the Olympic Peninsula when we were kids, one night we stopped at a little crab shack in Dungeness for dinner. My mother ordered Dungeness crab but my brothers and I asked for hamburgers. We did, however, try the crab, and it was so delicious, we forgot all about our hamburgers. My mother ordered more crab for all of us and we had a feast. Crab is one of my favorite foods to this day.

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