Google street view in Sequim is finally here!  This is good news for my buyer clients who come from out of state.  Google street view in Sequim is a great way to drive around on the ground and see real photos, a series of photos that Google has taken driving through Sequim.  At this point, the photos are limited, but the fact that Google has boots on the ground is a good sign and presumably the beginning of opening up our area to photos on every street eventually.

Google Street View in Sequim

Google Street View in Sequim is Limited

Google street view in Sequim is limited to entering the map on your computer at the corner of Sequim-Dungeness and Washington Avenue.  From that intersection, you then can follow the yellow line (not the yellow brick road) and you can use your mouse to go north or south on Sequim-Dungeness to the Highway 101 (and up and down 101 east and west), and you can “drive” south on Sequim-Dungeness all the way out to where the road turns into Anderson and then east on Old Olympic Highway toward Port Angeles.

Google Street View in Sequim is Cool

I also take many photos and videos of the Sequim area so my clients and others can see what Sequim is all about.  I love Google street view in Sequim, but it is still under development and will probably be a while until all Sequim streets are in the Google system.  Meanwhile, you can also enjoy hundreds of photos on this blog as well as vidoes I’ve taken at Sequim Real Estate Videos.

Google street view in Sequim is alive!

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The Dungeness Lighthouse in Sequim, Washington is at the end of a five mile spit.  In this video, I share some video from a hike to the Dungeness Lighthouse on a sunny Sequim afternoon.  More details about the lighthouse are in my article The Dungeness Lighthouse.

Dungeness Lighthouse

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The Dungeness Lighthouse Video by Chuck Marunde

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The Sequim Lighthouse, also known as the Dungeness Lighthouse, is located near the end of the Sequim Spit, which is a good 11 mile round trip hike.  Many people make it an afternoon pleasure hike and take a lunch and water, and if it’s a sunny day, which is always is in Sequim, it is a lot of fun.  I hiked the spit this weekend and took some photos for your viewing pleasure.  I also took video, which I will be posting after I’ve had an opportunity to edit it.

Sequim Lighthouse

Sequim Lighthouse Hike

The tide was in when I hiked, so I walked on higher ground, but the hike was very pleasant.  There is both soft and hard sand to walk on, and plenty of old dry logs that have washed in and sit high on the beach from the past 100 or 200 years.  It took me one hour and 40 minutes on the way back, and that includes some time shooting video, and I did jog part of the way.  If you casually walk it, give yourself two hours each way.  It’s five miles each way from the foot of the trail, but the foot of the trail to the parking lot is another half a mile each way.

Sequim Lighthouse History

The Sequim Lighthouse, which is formally called the New Dungeness Lighthouse is one of the oldest lighthouses in the Northwest, and it is also one of the few lighthouses that permits families the opportunities to be Lighthouse Keepers for a week.  This weekend I enjoyed a tour into the light tower by a tour guide from Colorado.  Tour guides don’t all live in Sequim.  There are lighthouse families around the country, and coming to the Sequim Lighthouse for a week is a great mini-vacation.  It’s not all play, because my tour guide had to walk up the stairs to the light tower every time she gave the tour.

“The Dungeness Spit was one of the many serious hazards to mariners in the Pacific Northwest waters.  It had been named Puenta Santa Cruz by a Spanish explorer in 1790 and renamed by Captain George Vancouver in 1792.  Vancouver wrote in his logbook that it resembled Dungeness in England, where a lighthouse had stood since 1746.”  [From the New Dungeness Light Station Assocation phamplet.]  The Sequim Lighthouse was built and first lighted on December 14, 1857.

You can learn more about the Sequim Lighthouse at the website, Sequim Lighthouse.

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Come and hike the spit to the Sequim Lighthouse known as the Dungeness Lighthouse on the Strait of Juan de Fuca.   If you like the beach, if you like the Ocean, if you like hiking and the fresh smell of sea water riding the crest of a warm summer breeze, you’ll love hiking the spit just a few miles outside Sequim.

Sequim Lighthouse Hike

Sequim Lighthouse – aka the New Dungeness Lighthouse

Depending on how fast or slow you walk the beach, it’s about two hours to the lighthouse and two hours back.   More if you take your time, shoot some photos of the wild life, or sit on a dry log to take in the sights.   There’s something very special about the steady sound of waves breaking on the shoreline.

Sequim Lighthouse Article

I’ve written another article with more photos and information about the Sequim Lighthouse, which is also known as the New Dungeness Lighthouse.  You can read that article at Sequim Lighthouse.

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