Daily Gnome: Design | Home | Family

  • about me
  • daily
  • home + projects
  • design
  • the fam
  • discoveries

Seabrook, Washington Family Vacation

April 4, 2012 by dailygnome 3 Comments

We spent a soggy spring break in Seabrook, Washington along the Olympic Peninsula. Although it rained nearly the entire time we found ways to make the most of it – caught up on good books, jigsaw puzzles, board games, and took advantage of short breaks in the weather.

Seabrook is set up similar to the other developments we’ve stayed at in Oregon – Olivia Beach and Bella Beach. I love these cottage communities: family friendly, walking trails, fire pits, parks, and convenient beach access. What makes Seabrook different is that it’s an actual town. Created from the ground up, complete with a town square. Although it’s more remote than its sister locales, it includes an on-site restaurant/pub, market, pottery studio, spa, indoor pool and many other businesses in the works.

We stayed at Ella’s Escape, which I learned is the beach house they’re giving away for an entire year! Want it to be yours? Enter here.

Post-swim and brief hot tub dip {sign stated only ages 6+ allowed}. For my little anti-rule breaker, it was living on the edge.

One afternoon we found respite from the rain at the cheery pottery studio. Walked away with garden gnomes, a princess bank and a custom hand-stamped pasta bowl:

We actually never set foot on the sand. How sad is that? But every time it stopped raining and we ventured down it was either high tide or high winds. But we spent time gazing at the horizon. And watching the waves crash. Which is what you do when you visit the coast in off-season.

The sun made an appearance the morning of our departure {of course!}.

Off season is nice, but I dream of returning come summer when temperatures warm, clouds break and sunny skies await. Swapping my wool hat for sunglasses and time spent bike riding, beach combing, building bonfires and kite flying. And catching up on my reading with toes in the sand.*
*last three photos via Seabrookwa.com

Seabrook Cottage Rentals on Dwellable

Related Posts:

  • Beach Trip
    Beach Trip
  • Sunsets and Chowder
    Sunsets and Chowder
  • Impromptu Family Time
    Impromptu Family Time
  • Spring Break in Sisters
    Spring Break in Sisters

Filed Under: Family, Travel

Comments

  1. Make It Happen Mama says

    April 9, 2012 at 3:22 pm

    Oh my goodness, I love the garden gnomes! And I appreciate the review – we just moved back to the Northwest this year and are always looking for new/fun places to spend a weekend on the coast with our little Monkey Boy. Thank you for sharing! 🙂

    Reply
  2. Portland Sunshine says

    April 11, 2012 at 3:31 am

    wow! i have never heard of this place and now i'm dying to go. great post. looks awesome.

    Reply
  3. Jane says

    April 17, 2013 at 11:07 am

    Hi Amy,
    My name is Jane and I’m with Dwellable.
    I was looking for blogs about Seabrook to share on our site and I came across your post…If you’re open to it, shoot me an email at jane(at)dwellable(dot)com.
    Hope to hear from you soon!
    Jane

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

{ daily feed }

subscribe in a reader or email

Looking Back

My Filing Cabinet

{ daily quotes }

As long as you embrace struggle and mistakes, you can learn anything.
–Salman Kahn

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
– Henry David Thoreau

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
– Hodding Carter, Jr.

{ daily chatter }

  • dailygnome on Portland Bungalow Remodel: Before and After Exterior
  • Gillian on Portland Bungalow Remodel: Before and After Exterior
  • dailygnome on 100 Things About Me
  • Sarah G. on 100 Things About Me

{ Daily Pics }

Daily Gnome | life. family. home | Website Design by SimplyFine Design