Anytime of the year, there are opportunities to play. Beachcombing in the winter after the big storm subsides. Digging clams and enjoying the resulting chowders and other recipes in the spring. Flying kites, watching pelicans catch fish and walking the warm sands and enjoying great wine and meals in the summer. The fall provides several music festivals and some of the best sunsets you’ll ever see. Come and enjoy playing in Ocean Shores and the North Beach!
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Playing in Ocean Shores is limited by only your imagination! People are drawn here by the wide-open beaches that are a gateway to the Pacific Ocean and the world beyond our shores. You’ll find crashing waves, cockleshells, sand dollars, agate rock and driftwood in every conceivable shape and size littering these fine sand beaches.
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The Pacific Beaches are also considered State Highways so you can drive many of them – and yes we do have a thriving tow truck industry! Because two of the Pacific’s biggest ocean currents are located off our coast you occasionally find glass, plastic, cork and Styrofoam of all sorts, including sometimes, the highly prized glass fishing floats. The driftwood is sometimes stunning! (Hint: come after a big storm that has a westerly wind for the best results!)
Shore birds, seabirds, eagles, hawks, pheasants and other assorted flying creatures abound in the food rich beach environment here in Ocean Shores. You can also see assorted other critters from brown bear to deer.
Ocean Shores is a peninsula stuck out into the Pacific Ocean and acts as one side of the bay entrance to Grays Harbor. On the Eastern edge of the Peninsula you find bay waters that are occasionally by-ways to whales of various kinds (mostly Grays). And if you like to dream of far off places, you can sit and watch ships from around the world navigate the bay toward the port facilities at Aberdeen and Hoquiam. Or follow the world’s ship traffic in and out of the bay on your computer at Marine Traffic.com The Ocean Shores Interpretive Center at the southern tip of the Peninsula provides hours of information and education about everything from birds and mammals to all the assorted sea life in and around the area. That and the History that is so unique to what is now a popular tourist destination that was once a home to cows, loggers, trappers and people subsisting on fishing and clams.
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