Whidbey Island area, WA (09-05-14)

I’ve been suffering from blogatosis, or blogitis, whichever you prefer.  After a summer of constant blogging and updating, its hard for me to find the energy to blog right now. My blogging friends know that more goes into a blog post than just a “stream of consciousness”, although that’s what I try to make it seem like it is.

In Alaska and Canada I had to rely on my memory when writing my blog!! Usually when I am posting about something like the Klondike gold rush, I will Google it to refresh my memory, but that mostly wasn’t possible for the last 3 months. So yeah, I’m exhausted, lol!


Anyway, enough whining.  Here’s a synopsis of what we’ve been up to since we landed in Washington:

We met up with our friend Joe and his girlfriend Sharon.  Joe has a water/electric site outside his garage so after stuffing ourselves with Mexican food, we spent the night at his place.  We met up with them a day or so later for lunch in Port Townsend as well.  Try as we might, we couldn’t convince them to come to AZ this January.

The small town of Oak Harbor has a Military Appreciation Day, with free food for everyone!  We enjoyed the free ice cream immensely!

The following day the town park hosted an Antique Motor Car Club so we watched all the old cars being driven around the park.

Hiking: we’ve hiked several trails, including this hike in Deception Pass State Park, where views of Mt. Baker were prevalent.

Some of our “hikes” have been along the beach.  These are the hikes that have made us decide that we can not do this area justice in a few weeks, we we need to come back for a summer.  Being boaters, we love the water-especially the ocean, and this area has some spectacular ocean!

We both enjoy searching for, and collecting, sea glass.  A guy we met told us about a beach that has an abundance sea glass. Although our definition of “abundance” differs, we collected enough to keep us happy! (this isn’t all of it )

Finally.  While we were in Alaska, we went on several whale watches, but never got a good look at killer whales.  I had heard that northwest Washington was a good place to take a whale watch looking for Orcas (which are not actually whales at all, but the largest member of the dolphin family).






We signed up for a local whale watch and had an awesome day watching killer whales!