{"id":8820,"date":"2019-02-19T06:07:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T13:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=8820"},"modified":"2021-09-19T01:36:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T08:36:31","slug":"up-down-and-all-around-deception-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=8820","title":{"rendered":"Up, down and all around Deception Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My father and I hardly ever speak<\/strong>, we just aren’t that close, which is ok. Because of this though is why Deception Pass<\/a> is so special to me, as it is the one place that my Dad shared a memory with me about the place I was born. It was a simple memory, one of him fishing just below the bridge, but it’s a memory I’ll never forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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I walk along the bridge<\/strong>, mesmerized by the colors of the water below. I spot a giant sea lion swimming quickly against the current, its powerful body gliding along in the clear waters before diving down and out of sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other side of the bridge<\/strong> is a trail that takes me down to the shore. I see couples holding hands and wonder if my parents did the same thing when I was just a baby. I like to think they did, and were happy as a young newlywed couple in the months before my Dad went off to Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The beach is full of families <\/strong>enjoying a picnic lunch, old men fishing, and couples finding quiet spots under the shade of pine trees to make out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A place where the confluence of the open ocean meets the edge of the Pacific Northwest. A powerful force is at work here, Perhaps that is where the name Deception Pass<\/em> came from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe evil forces like to deceive us that this place isn’t a special vortex in the Universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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