Book your stay now – Photo above: July 3rd, 2024

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Thinking that the restaurant and lounge here, have not been open for years now. Lighted sign is still on. Hotel is open.

This location features “Free parking

Disappointed to learn that there was no restaurant or breakfast service (in spite of the huge sign on the outside of the hotel announcing that there was). We were told that it was “because of Covid” which seems a pretty ‘slim excuse’ in June 2024!

 

Nice local article by:

The Daily World reporter Michael S. Lockett

Sunshine and fireworks: riding with Ocean Shores fire for the 4th

“The fire department can’t afford to sit and wait for the calls to come in, Ritter said. OSFD has adopted a forward-deployed posture…”

“Ritter voices concerns about the high tide, forecast for a bit after 10 p.m., squishing guests together. A long day of recreating on the beach, limited space, liberal alcohol consumption, and a gun show in town could all contribute to incidents, Ritter reiterates.”

Photo above: July 3rd, 2024

Not here to complain or to take away from others what gives them joy, just trying to make sense of local rules and regulations.

What is Safe and Sane?

WSP says these are legal:

Reloadable Mortars
A shell consisting of a container, a lift
charge, a time fuse, a burst charge, and
stars/effects. The lift charge propels the
shell out of the tube igniting the burst
charge at the right altitude, igniting the
effects.

Mine/Shells/Cakes
Mine – An aerial device that shoots stars into the sky in an upward spray pattern. Shell – A shell is an aerial item that is fired into the sky. Cake – Dense-packed collection of mine/shell tubes that are fused together.

Roman Candles
Heavy paper or cardboard tube containing
pyrotechnic composition. Upon ignition,
up to ten “stars” are individually expelled
at several-second intervals.

At 2:00 Mean Gene explains the big, legal fireworks in WA:

Here is the Mean Gene web site.

 

I have lived all over the US and was thinking that Safe and Sane meant it would not leave the ground or explode. I was mistaken. Wife was not. She knows the deal.

 

Possibly of interest:

Safe And Sane – Legal Only

What would Westport look like?

Two Jetties – Westport and Damon Point

Imagine telling the fishing boat captains over at Westport that their access to a 100 year old armor-plated harbor was going to be let go

Damon Point – Coastal Erosion Attitudes