Coast of Washington State

An RV park in Hoquiam, Washington is our temporary home 

while we explore the coast.

After a 28 mile drive to the Coast and south 7 miles,
 we stopped at the 
corner of Cranberry & Turkey in Grayland, WA. 

The community of Grayland is home to Cranberry Bogs operated by several

families that grow and harvest the berries.

A typical bog has a home and pump house with a warehouse nearby.

The cranberries are harvested in the fall 

and sent to a Ocean Spray plant to be processed.

Each pump house has a cranberry grower plaque to identify the family product.

The town gets it's water from artesian wells which is the 

best drinking water in the state.  

Some bogs are diked and flooded for harvesting process.  

Most crops are irrigated by sprinklers.

Bogs are planted in peat.

Ditch wood cribbing is needed because the ground

is soft.  

Farmers use railroad type carts to tend 

their crops.

Mineral rich irrigation water stains nearby warehouses.

Old time dry harvesting picker.

Today's harvesting machine.