6/1/09: We hiked out to Point Alava, the westernmost point in the contiguous US. There was fog everywhere and what sounded like thousands of seals barking somewhere that sounded disturbingly close. Oddly, we could keep walking west past the westernomst point. There was an exposed sandbar that led out to Tskawahyah Island (you can see it in the distance). We couldn't climb it because it's a sacred site, but we could walk around the part that's usually underwater.