Roosevelt Beach near Pacific Beach Washington The forecast for the weekend was excellent. We are having an early spring and the prediction was for sun and temperatures around 60 degrees. The drive to Ocean Shores takes about 2 1/2 hours … Continue reading →
Washington State has a very different coast than Oregon or California. The northern section of our coastline is the Olympic National Park; good areas for tide pools and headland trails to view sea stacks along isolated beaches. The southern area … Continue reading →
Mt Baker over the Salish Sea We returned to the cottage after our hike. The day had cleared but there were a few interesting clouds so I knew it would be a great sunset. I walked out to the shoreline … Continue reading →
Cattle Point Sunday dawned sunny and a bit chilly. We could see some clouds in the distance and knew it would probably be off and on sun. We wanted to hike Mt. Finlayson in the American Camp section of the … Continue reading →
View from Lime Kilm Park We traveled to the San Juan Islands a couple of times when we first moved to the Pacific Northwest way back in the seventies. We had a memorable camping trip to Orcas and took our … Continue reading →
After touring the Skagit farms, we decided to skip visiting Taylor Shellfish. We really enjoyed it last year with the games, educational exhibits and samples but we decided to take advantage of the good warm weather and do a hike. … Continue reading →
Last year we had a lot of fun at the Skagit Farm Tour – a weekend where several family farms open for visitors. We combined it with a stop in Edison and a drive up Chuckanut Drive. We kept our … Continue reading →
Mount Rainier from Second Burroughs Mountain As promised, I uploaded some pictures of our 2013 hike. We did it on September 8th 2013 – a little bit after but it was a gorgeous day. One never knows in early September … Continue reading →
September has been a very wet month. Normally the weather slowly drops off after Labor Day but this year we have had several significant downpours. Heavy rains are unusual for this area but we have had about 5 days inwhich … Continue reading →
One of our favorite day trips in the spring is to go to Eastern Washington to view the wildflowers. I was searching on this blog to see my previous posts and I found that I haven’t blogged that often about … Continue reading →