The Sequim Lavender Festival is coming up so we got a head start and did a road ride around that area before it got too busy. The lavender is in season and blooming like crazy EVERYWHERE!
This ride started from Robin Hill Farm County Park which is right on the Olympic Discovery Trail. We rode that a little ways and connected to Old Olympic Highway and Cays Rd. We didn’t actually intend to stop at a lavender farm, but I was lured in by the beauty and fragrance of one right on our road.
Lavender Connection is a charming family-owned and operated lavender farm in Sequim. Once a dairy farm, this historic property boasts more than 3,000 lavender plants of 40 different varieties. You can create your own bouquet as you pick from the fields or leisurely enjoy the afternoon on one of the benches. The scenery is spectacular! We were on bikes, so couldn’t really buy anything, but check out their homemade lavender products inside their old-fashioned barn. They distill their own lavender creating 18 varieties of essential oil to choose from.
Back on our bikes, we continued down to the Dungeness Bay and across the bluffs to Jamestown. This section of narrow charming road boasts what I call fancy houses with elaborate yards full of flowers. The temps were considerable cooler along the water and we stopped at Cline Spit County Park to go down to the water. It’s crab season in Dungeness!
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe was formalized by members of S’Klallam communities along the eastern end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca in 1874 when, faced with the threat of forced relocation by European colonizers, a group purchased a tract of 210 acres and established a community near Dungeness named “Jamestown” in honor of village leader James Balch. We stopped at the James Balch Memorial Stone before continuing on to Port Williams and Marlyn Nelson County Park. This was a nice place for a rest on the warm sand.
Our ride back was a series of country roads past lavender farm after lavender farm. It’s so pretty this time of year with all the vibrant purple fields but did you know there is also white and pink lavender? I learned that at Lavender Connection.
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