The North Olympic Peninsula’s oldest continuous Easter egg hunt will be at 7 a.m. today in Chetzemoka Park on Jackson Street in Port Townsend.
The hunt, which is expected to be over in about 10 minutes, is organized by the Port Townsend Elks Lodge No. 317.
More than 80 prize baskets have been filled with candy, stuffed animals and toys.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, hundreds of children in Port Angeles, Sequim, Joyce, Forks and Quilcene raced through parks finding hidden treasure Saturday in organized Easter egg hunts.
In Port Angeles, at the 30th annual KONP hunt at Shane Park, children 9 years old and younger piled plastic Easter eggs with small prizes inside and had a visit from a two-legged Easter bunny, who also wandered downtown distributing candy.
In Sequim, thousands of plastic eggs — as well as free hot dogs, face-painting and a bounce house — were enjoyed by children from the ages of 5 years old to 12 at the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula’s Sequim unit. Children there also had a visit from the Easter bunny.
At the Quilcene Community Center, children gathered eggs hidden by the Quilcene Lions Club. In Joyce, children 10 years old and younger converged on Tongue Point at Salt Creek Recreation Park, and in LaPush, children 12 years old and younger flocked to the Quileute Oceanside Resort in a hunt sponsored by the Quileute Tribal Council Housing Authority.
Some 1,440 boiled and dyed eggs, plus about 500 surprise-filled plastic eggs, were scattered in Tillicum Park’s baseball field for the Forks Easter Egg Hunt.