On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we explore La Push as we wait for log debris to clear out of the area. We have a great time and make lots of new ...

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okay here comes that next weather system

I know whether it's a big part of our

life right now this time of year in the

Pacific Northwest especially on the

Pacific coast you could have these

pop-up fast I mean look at last night

sorry

not last night night before we were in

just dead calm conditions hope to and

just the sea state was flat now the

winds building flowing 25 gusting into

the 30s supposed to keep building to 35

and gusting into the 40s and 50s later

today I'm looking out here

sipping ocean is starting to look a

little angry

that's how we're here

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this should go on for about two days and

then start laying down by about day

three or four the sea states gonna be

calm enough that we'll try to make our

next jump

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but we're just playing in my ear right

now weathers definitely a factor

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so it looks like we're gonna be stuck

here until this Gale passes and also

getting all those logs to kind of drift

on passes so we can safely go down to

Westport as we were coming in we noticed

some of the beaches were really pretty

and so are the rock formations so we're

gonna get cleaned up do some chores and

check out what this town has to offer

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so this is the harbour entrance to the

Quileute River that little entrance we

came in yesterday morning winds picking

up a bit so let's get a little blustery

out here there's three main river

systems coming off the Olympic Mountains

that are just dumping these logs out

here

the Quileute is has actually three

tributaries that goes into it and these

massive logs from the Olympics come

rushing down here I mean look at these

suckers they are just huge

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we saw a few of these out there

yesterday or day before yesterday

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eventually they all wash up on the beach

just as far as you can see just these I

mean they have to be 500 year old trees

out here just impressive anyway the

girls are having fun climbing around on

this driftwood this driftwoods 20 feet

tall

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couple of these logs are just massive I

mean just massive here's one that's very

similar to the one that hit us it had a

root ball on it just like this

relatively new but about 40 feet long

this looks identical to the one that we

had to get out from underneath our boat

the other night you know it's we were

lucky it wasn't one of these that would

have been catastrophic

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it looks like the winds are continuing

to increase its supposed to get a little

blustery this afternoon it's gonna be

rated it's not raining now boy it is

cool for damn ago she's crazy

okay we're heading up to the marina

office to do a little internet this is a

we have zero cellular in this town zero

oh you may notice we've moved slipped

also I'll show you why in a minute but

with no cellular god who the track I

think it's time for a booster we're do

something but even when we're standing

next to the building we barely get a

service it's crazy so we have zero

cellular but we do get a Wi-Fi signal

from the office up here so we could do

Wi-Fi calling check our emails and just

get a little bit of a work done because

mi a because we went silent and here's

why we moved the boat look at this we're

having a - tide over the next two or

three days we were in this slip over

here and I was checking the depth and it

was getting dangerously low I mean it

was probably a foot below our rudders so

we moved over to a deeper slip yeah I

feel much more comfortable so let's go

check our emails

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okay this is how you go grocery shopping

when you're in the push you get up early

you jump on the bus to a neighboring

town and you pick up your groceries

because there is no grocery store in the

place and it is freezing yeah it's a

below freezing today actually Dex Dex

have a little bit of ice on them this

morning it has to be below freezing yeah

okay let's make that track

okay so here we are the big city of

forks Washington

amicus the ketchup on her cellular and

Internet here because we actually have

reception but we're gonna be here who

had a couple hours before the bus heads

back so we're gonna walk around town a

little bit and then do some grocery

shopping and get back on the bus towards

low push the cloud transit system

connects all of the northern towns of

the Olympic Peninsula they have a fleet

of modern buses with friendly drivers

round-trip for the three of us was about

five dollars and most of the time we had

the entire bus to ourselves

plus the views were spectacular we were

talking to a local fisherman named Daryl

and we were getting to talk about fish

and I mentioned that I like steelhead

and look what he got us I can really

concentrate on my schoolwork right now

because I can smell my can't wait

here you go time to dig in thank you

okay it's been a couple days now we've

been here at the Quileute tribal marina

and everybody's been super friendly

everywhere on the peninsula so far we've

just run into just wonderful people

the weather's calm down winds are died

down the seas are flattening out and you

know we probably could have left this

morning but we didn't for a reason it's

a special day for Emma it's Halloween

and she wanted to dress up and you know

spend some time with other kids so we're

gonna stick around today she's getting

ready now on the boat and we'll go

trick-or-treating and they have a little

Halloween festival here in town in La

Push and we'll let her have her fun time

tonight we'll head out first thing in

the morning

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we're just heading out of the push this

morning and we're gonna try to make it

in daylight to great Harbor I don't

think that's gonna happen

but we're hoping we have to plan the tie

it's really carefully around here

because there is a bar in every port

that we go into along this coast so

fingers crossed we're gonna have a good

passage

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okay this is the bar right now

everything's looking real good depth is

good Coast Guard's out here waiting for

us to cross this little bar this little

bar

well it's narrow the dangerous bar

there's the Coast Guard

Jeremy information of Broadcasters here

in the Culebra partitions your channel

to view out though

all five senses no one bigger now

what a backdrop this is really

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well conditions look pretty good out

here we've got these long rollers about

12 seconds apart but they're only about

five feet tall so it's gonna be real

comfortable

you know it's tough this stretch of the

coast because there isn't any

Anchorage's and sometimes you have to

make an overnight passage and with all

this log debris on that last leg it was

it was not a good situation but we're

gonna try to make a run for grades

Harbor make it all in one day and

hopefully we get maintain some speed and

get in there before a nightfall that way

we can keep an eye open for all this log

debris but everything looks good so far

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okay we've been at it for about almost

four and a half hours now we passed

destruction Ireland we out for the

distance there and um I could actually

get a visual on Cape Elizabeth over here

pretty flat and calm out here got a nice

rolling swell

they're saying it's a four foot swell at

a five peak so that's perfect and

they're about 12 seconds apart you could

barely feel them you know the log debris

out here is so much better so much

better than it was a few days ago I'm

glad we went into the bush and waited

that out I've only seen one log off in

the distance I've seen a little bit of a

smaller debris in the water but nothing

alarming at all nothing like it was a

few days ago gosh

well we're motoring now the winds have

been out of the south for the first half

of the day they're gonna start clocking

around they'll be out of the East soon

east northeast and then out of the north

then we'll be able to sail the second

half of the day pick up our speed we

have to average six knots to make this

in daylight hours to make it from La

Push to Westport and we're slightly

under it now we're probably averaging

about 5.6 5.7 but

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with the wind on her back we should pick

up speed here shortly just dogs in a

little bit of kelp here but besides that

the sun's out this chilly

but we're making way our time and

Lapidus turned out to be really fun the

quillion

tribe made us feel welcome and were

really helpful I will never forget when

they invited us to their weekly tribal

drug gathering they played traditional

drums sang and danced and told stories

of the rich traditions of family and

community

this event draws members of the small

village and is a way to pass down the

history to the next generation out of

respect to the tribe we did not film the

ceremony the Quileute hunted sea mammals

and fished from their ocean-going cedar

canoes fishing is still their main

source of income today I am so glad we

got to experience this tradition and

will always have great memories I will

push and the Kalia tribe

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okay we just keep plugging along here

it's a pretty nice day I'm catching all

these nice smells from Lin she's down in

the galley preparing dinner I don't know

what it is yet but it smells delicious

let's go take a look we got going down

there

well it's called seize right now so I'm

gonna make clam chowder with fresh bread

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well we got a little wind not much just

enough that we could drop one engine and

actually increase our speed but we're

looking like we're gonna make it in

daylight hours it is hopeful been a

textbook run just been easy wish we had

a little more wind but that's the name

of the game this time of year blends at

the helm and she'll be in pretty soon so

it looks like my wish came true we're

making it in before the Sun sets I'm so

really really happy about that

everybody pre made dinner we're having

clam chowder and fresh-baked bread

tonight so as soon as we pull in I can

reheat that up and we can have a nice

dinner and have a nice good sleep

I gotta say this is the perfect sale

after what happened the previous one you

know things happen we know that and but

it's okay you know it's okay because you

just learn from it and you move on and

you enjoy the scenery because this is

spectacular

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okay we've made it in in daylight hours

we timed our entry over the bar just

perfectly we were coming in as the tide

was flooding and just about slack

so we rode it in made good time had a

big day but we're now in Westport it's a

beautiful night winds were in our favor

the second half of the day and we had a

nice run it was it was a nice nice day

okay we're all tied up in a safe place

tonight

no Anchorage is around here so we're at

the transient dock we're on float six

tonight we had an option of going down

to float 21 we came in the entrance and

they have a dredge in here right now so

we came over here and it looks like it's

gonna be a neat town to explore it looks

like a ton of commercial fishing boats

and a cute little seaside town so we'll

check that out tomorrow

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