Visting the Game Farm

The Olympic Game Farm is at 1423 Ward Road in Sequim (follow signs from the Sequim Avenue exit off Highway 101). The farm is open for driving tours year-round, except Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Guided walking tours are now available through summer.

General information: The farm is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. seven days a week. Admission for the driving tour is $8 per person for adults and youths ages 13 and over; $7 for seniors and children ages 6-12. Children 5 and under are free. Walking tours are $9 for adults and $8 for children and seniors. Tickets for both tours are $14 for adults and $12 for children and seniors. It takes 45 minutes or so to drive through the park; plan on longer for the walking tours and petting zoo. For information, call 800-778-4295 or 360-683-4295. Web: www.oly

gamefarm.com.

Visitor information: General information on the Sequim area is available at the Sequim visitors center, just off the Washington Street exit of Highway 101. Volunteers at the center will highlight routes to anywhere around Sequim on a helpful, take-with-you map of the area. Another bonus: When we stopped, they also gave us coupons clipped from the local newspaper worth $1 per person off Game Farm admission.

Other things to do: Explore acres of woods, miles of beach and loads of animals in Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge and Dungeness Recreation Area, just north of Sequim on the Strait of Juan de Fuca. More than 200 species of birds, 41 species of land mammals and eight species of marine mammals visit (or live in) the refuge.

The next-door recreation area is 216 acres of wooded trails. Hike along the Dungeness Spit, at 5.5 miles the longest natural spit in the country, to the New Dungeness Lighthouse, established in 1857. From downtown Sequim, follow Highway 101 west to Kitchen-Dick Road. That turns into Lotzgesell Road, and the entrance to both facilities. Pets are OK in the 631-acre recreation area, which is open daily from dawn to dusk. No pets are allowed in the refuge, where access is by foot or horseback only.

In addition to boat moorage and launching facilities, the John Wayne Marina, 2577 W. Sequim Bay Road, has a sheltered bay for shell-seekers, a gift shop, a restaurant that's open from 8 a.m.-9 p.m., and a bronze statue of the Duke himself (who donated the land for the marina); 360-417-3440.

Eating and sleeping: We've been to Sequim three times, and every time, we've eaten at The 3 Crabs restaurant, a landmark on the bay that serves tons of seafood, not a hint of llama or yak, and mile-high cream pies; 11 Three Crabs Road; opens at 11:30 a.m.; moderate prices; 360-683-4264.

Breakfasts are big at the Red Ranch Restaurant, 820 W. Washington St. in Sequim, which also is open for dinner; inexpensive to moderate; 360-683-6622.

We've stayed at two places in and around Sequim: the Best Western Sequim Bay Lodge, 268522 Highway 101, 360-683-0691. Standard room rates through June 10 are $79 plus tax; after June 10 rates increase to $91.

In Port Townsend (half an hour from Sequim): The Tides Inn at 1807 Water St.; 1-800-822-8696; standard room rates for summer are $80-$104 plus tax.