Named one of ‘America’s Favorite Beach Towns’ by ForbesTraveler.com and voted ‘Best Beach’ by the viewers of Seattle’s KING-5 TV, the Peninsula offers visitors blocks of colorful shops, great seafood, comfortable lodging, small museums, horseback riding, and an expansive beach. Southwest Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula: home to a new national park, two historic lighthouses, renowned restaurants, cranberry bogs, and oyster farms.
Visualize 209 kite teams of a dozen or more people each, with their own gamelan orchestras. No team is permitted in competition with a kite less than 3 meters wide. Showing you this celebration, Bali International Kite Festival or Lomba Layang-Layang International Bali, is what you can see at the World Kite Museum in Long Beach, WA, beginning February 4th & 5th.
Other details of life in Bali include sounds and pictures of gamelan orchestras, displays of batik fabric, the importance of masks, and of course kite making, plus myths about kites – BATS! MYTH AND REALITY, performances – 11:00 am, 1:30 pm & 3:00 pm both days.
SOURCE: WWW.BEACHTOCHOWDER.COM
“According to a variety of studies, a dash in the sand will boost your calorie consumption by about 1.6 times. Harvard University research indicates that while running a 10-minute mile, the average person burns between 300-400 calories per half hour. Smaller people of course (Wait, I have to have to run more and hold the mayo? Life is cruel) will burn less, while larger people will burn more. Running on sand, however, will earn you a 30-minute calorie burn rate of 480-640 calories at a 10-minute pace for the average person!”
“Another awesome calorie blasting beach perfect for running is the very long, very flat, Long Beach, Washington Peninsula, home to the World’s Longest Beach and the World’s Largest Frying Pan! After a 10-mile sand run, you’ll have earned that oyster omelet and fried spuds.”
These wonderful snow photos from Janelle Hux inspired a Winter Weather Wonderland at the Beach photo contest on our Facebook page.
Looking East Toward the Willapa Hills From the Beach
The Long Beach Arch
The Worlds Largest Frying Pan
Sunrise Over the Snowy Willapa Hills
Winter Weather Wonderland at the Beach photo Contest
Please submit your winter photos taken on the Long Beach Peninsula to photocontest@funbeach.com and we will put them up in an album on the Visitors Bureau Facebook page. Our fans will decide the winner by the amount of likes each photo gets. Please provide a mailing address in the email so we can get you your prize if your photo is chosen. You have until January 31st to get us your photos; voting closes February 2nd.
Contest Rules
Prize: 1 vinyl funbeach.com decal and a certificate will be sent to the mailing address provided us when entering the contest. The winner will first be notified by email.
The annual Windless Kite Festival brings indoor kite pilots (or choreographers, or dancers, you name it) to Long Beach, Wash., on Jan. 14-15, 2012.
Check out the full story in the Seattle Times.
Below is the schedule of proposed razor-clam digs, along with evening low tides, announced by WDFW:
All digs are subject to the results of marine toxin tests. We’ll post here as they’re confirmed.
Washington State Parks has announced the following “free days,” when the Discover Pass will not be required to visit a state park.
Following are the 2012 State Parks “free days”:
Visit Cape Disappointment State Park here on our site, and at http://capedisappointment.org
The Grass Roots Garbage Gang organizes a beach clean up for the 28 miles of beach on the Long Beach Peninsula. Hundreds of locals and visitors come out to clean the beach. EVERYONE is more than welcome to join any of the events.
Free chowder included!
Just show up on any main beach approach between 9:30 and 12:30 on cleanup day.
More info: http://www.ourbeach.org
Chautauqua Lodge is proud to help this event by offering rooms starting at $69 for those assisting in the clean-up. Contact Chautauqua Lodge at 800/869-8401 or http://chautauqualodge.com
Irene Martin likes to spring this word association game on people: She’ll say “tuna” and ask them to utter the first words that come to mind. “Seventy percent of the time it’s ‘Bumble Bee,’” Martin said.
The percentage would likely be higher in Astoria, which for 81 years was the headquarters of the Bumble Bee brand and its predecessor, The Columbia River Packers Association. The company that started out as a salmon packing outfit and later expanded to tuna was the city’s major employer, and its departure in 1980 sent economic shudders through Astoria.
“Bumble Bee really was the heart of the place for so many years,” Martin said. “At least part of the heart went out when Bumble Bee left.”
A century (and two years) after the firm’s beginnings, Martin and the late Roger Tetlow have provided a thorough history of the company. “Flight of the Bumble Bee: The Columbia River Packers Association & a Century in the Pursuit of Fish” has more facts and figures than the armchair historian needs, but people who worked in the fishing industry will appreciate all the details.
“We get out to Long Beach here in Washington as often as possible. These photos show just some of the reasons why we love it there so much. Ever changing but always beautiful. There’s nothing like being on the Pacific Coast!” More pictures on komonews.com
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