DUNGENESS – “Welcome to serenity,” reads the sign near the Dungeness Lighthouse, a 5-mile beach trek away from Sequim’s outskirts.
Let’s face it. Most of us cannot make it out to serenity during the week.
But Johan Van Nimwegen, the technologically savvy president of the New Dungeness Light Station Association, is working on giving Internet surfers a view of that sweet spot.
Already a weather station has been installed near the lighthouse on the tip of Dungeness Spit.
And on the association’s Web site, www.NewDungenessLighthouse.com, the “current weather at NDL” link shows conditions – temperature, wind, today’s rainfall – and will keep records for those who want to follow weather trends.
Next up: a permanent Web camera, to show screen jockeys a spit panorama.
The camera will afford “unsurpassed views” of the lighthouse and Olympic Mountains, Van Nimwegen promised.
“If everything goes right, we’ll have the camera up this weekend,” he said during a Tuesday presentation to the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce.
