I recently took a trip to Toquart Bay, a forest service campsite I hadn’t been to since about 1992. Fifteen years, I am getting older! When I was last there my wife and I had a great time - a beautiful location, not too many people, no RV’s (a few trucks with campers on the back). One of the truck campers had gathered some oysters and gave us some. Ok a bear did come sniffing around at night, but it was a beautiful, quiet, peaceful spot. Here’s a picture to capture the essence:
This time we went back and it was quite a bit different. Wall to wall RV’s blocking the view in what felt like 15 foot bays. Concrete walls. Two sets of out houses. Quite different. We turned around and left. Apparently in the 15 years things had changed quite a bit. (Due respect to the people running it now it sounds like there is a reason it has changed - it was becoming a party place). But a picture does speak a thousand words….
Actually - if you goto their website the picture there does it justice. The lady we spoke to there said it was going to be privatized soon.
I had a similar experience going to Pulau Tioman in Malaysia. I was there in ‘84 and back again in ‘94. It had built up substantially, lots of docks, rows of huts going up the hillside.
It begs the question - if you go somewhere year after year you won’t see the change as much. If you wait a long time, hoping to reclaim some of the original magic, is it worth it?
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