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LSH · 10-10-2004, 08:16 PM

Hey brink,
I used to live in a vacation area also. Tourism...summers were rather hard on the tiny town of Clallam Bay. And storeowners actually had different prices for townies and tourists, which I thought was horrid. I don't think we actually hated tourists though.

Protesters were NOT our favorite people though. Clallam Bay is right next to Neah Bay. And when the Makah Tribe got the right to hunt grey whales in the traditional fashion, the whole place turned into a MADHOUSE. I remember all the protesters trying to involve the town people in the protest, and we continually explained that we lived next to the Makah Nation, they are our neighbors and we declined involvement, which pissed them off. They lined the beaches, clogged the streets and one the grocery store in town, 200 law enforcement personnel plus their vehicles were brought in to control the crowd. When they finally cleared out, these "environmentally evolved" people left tons of litter on our pristine beaches and in our forests and on our streets. that was a bad summer...

10-10-2004, 08:16 PM	#58
LSH Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: America Posts: 985	Hey brink, I used to live in a vacation area also. Tourism...summers were rather hard on the tiny town of Clallam Bay. And storeowners actually had different prices for townies and tourists, which I thought was horrid. I don't think we actually hated tourists though. Protesters were NOT our favorite people though. Clallam Bay is right next to Neah Bay. And when the Makah Tribe got the right to hunt grey whales in the traditional fashion, the whole place turned into a MADHOUSE. I remember all the protesters trying to involve the town people in the protest, and we continually explained that we lived next to the Makah Nation, they are our neighbors and we declined involvement, which pissed them off. They lined the beaches, clogged the streets and one the grocery store in town, 200 law enforcement personnel plus their vehicles were brought in to control the crowd. When they finally cleared out, these "environmentally evolved" people left tons of litter on our pristine beaches and in our forests and on our streets. that was a bad summer...