Anacortes, United States Travel Blogs

Anacortes Island and San Juan Island
Jul 10, 2007 (31 photos)

... and drove immediately to the American Camp at San Juan Island National Historical Park.  It commemorates the "Pig War" between the United States and England when the two countries almost went to war over a shot pig which resulted in a twelve year ...

Sunday 17 August
Oct 12, 2008 (1 photos)

... the I5 running up the west coast of Washington.   We stopped for information in a visitors centre and then drove out to Anacortes which is on an island just off the main land.   We headed for a city park called Washington Park on the end of ...

How Did We Manage That?
Aug 5, 2006 (3 photos)

I would never have believed it in a million years. Not only did we leave the house on time (right to minute, 7 AM), we got to Anacortes with no glitches, found the ferry dock, and breezed right through the gate. No line, we made the 8:45! I had aimed for ...

Hurry Up and Wait
Jul 12, 2009 (1 photos)

... in a somewhat less-than-professional manner. The female of the couple, it turned out, had been born in Norway and had moved to the United States as a young woman. She’d lived in Minneapolis for a number of years, and used to hang out at the Sons of ...

Beauteous Browsing Below the Border
Oct 21, 2006

... much though, so how can I tell what their attitude towards the world is? Something to look forward to discovering. Anyways, Anacortes is a lovely coast town/city with houses sprawled across the hilly coast. Many of the people are dry-dock workers, and ...

Let's Stay in the Car
Aug 6, 2006 (23 photos)

If you're the 7th car left back from the ferry, that means you're the 7th car BOARDING the next one. Right? The Ferry Pointer Traffic Guider Person pointed me to the left upper lane, but I pretended not to see. Engine off, oops, too late. I grabbed a ...

Anacortes
Nov 25, 2007

From Anacortes, Washington

No work just trippin
Sep 6, 2006 (5 photos)

Instead of spending the night in Seatle and heading for Glacier the next day, we decided to take a detour. We spent the night in Anacortes, WA & woke up the next AM and took a ferry to the San Jaun Islands. The sound is beautiful and peaceful. We had a ...

Harbour seals, porpoises but no orca
May 30, 2009 (8 photos)

Where, oh where are the orcas? The kayak trip was a triumph of hope over pragmatism and research. All I wanted was to kayak with orcas. Stupidly I booked us with a company that left from the mainland, not the island, and does not even get into the main ...

Day 14 Guemes Island (And More)
May 22, 2006 (5 photos)

... for a ferry ride, so we took the 5 minute ferry to Guemes Island to check it out. Guemes is just across from downtown Anacortes, but as we learned with Lummi, it doesn't take more than a five minute ferry ride to make a world of difference. The islands ...

Detour
Jul 4, 2008

... changed our course and headed south to find a place to park the boat and get to California.  We decided to head for Anacortes, Washington.  The weather was sunny and warm and the seas were calm so we made the choice to do an "all nighter" ...

Back in the water
Aug 2, 2008 (9 photos)

Three days living in the boat yard has been interesting... Jill learned a lot about the part of the boat she has never seen - the bottom.  In addition to getting the bottom painted we got a new boot stripe (that's the part above the bottom ...

Getting the hard on...I mean getting on the hard
Jul 30, 2008 (13 photos)

It's Tuesday, the wind has been howling all day in the marina...so hard there were whitecaps inside the wall at the marina entrance!  And we have a 3:00 PM date with North Harbor Marine to get our boat hauled out for bottom paint ...

Back in Action
Jul 27, 2008 (14 photos)

On Wednesday, July 16, we drove for sixteen hours from Walnut Creek to Anacortes.  Margie is doing great!  She has been released by her cardiologist to drive and exercise and do just about anything she wants.  We were glad we could be there ...

Test 2
May 18, 2007

Nothing but a test 2

Anacortes, San Juan Islands
Sep 15, 1988

Anacortes on one of the San uan Islands

Day 13 On to Anacortes Mile 1265
May 21, 2006 (3 photos)

... of campsites open - it was, in fact, Victoria Day Weekend for those Canadians, eh, and the annual Waterfront Festival in Anacortes - . The weather, as noted, had changed to a bit dismal, so we headed out from the rainforest of the Park to downtown to ...

The adventure begins!!!!!
Jun 15, 2008

Drive to Crater Lake, OR 8 hours

Orcas, Orcas, Everywhere...
Sep 26, 2007 (4 photos)

Today was the whale watch...and we scored BIGTIME!! There are three resident pods of Orcas in the San Juan Islands and we saw members of two of them - the "J" and "L" pods. These are tight matriarchal family groups that returned to these waters after a ...

Road Trip to Anacortes with Larry Mattingly
Jun 6, 2008 (9 photos)

Went for a long and beautiful drive to Northern Washington with Larry Mattingly. Make sure and click on the photos to enlarge them, these really are very pretty photos!     Jackie Whedbee ...

meet the team...
Jun 14, 2008

once in anacortes, i finally began to meet the people who i'd been trading emails with for the last few months. i'd seen their pictures and bios on the esperanza ride site, so i could recognize a couple folks. luckily, everyone seems to be pretty cool. ...