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whale watching at San Juan Islands, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

whale watching at San Juan Islands

A travel blog entry by exploreamerica

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I had a leisurely morning.  I picked up lunch and sat out alongthe water to eat and relax.  Then I walked around to visit some stores.  From there I found an internet cafe from which I am updating theis blog at this very moment. At 1PM ...

Kayaking San Juan Island, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

Kayaking San Juan Island

A travel blog entry by jkirby

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... kayak. Pretty cool. Worth $180? Hard to say. But pretty cool.   Day 11 Hiked around the Lime Kiln area of San Juan island. Had ice cream at The Doctors Office in Friday Harbor. Caught the ferry to Sydney, Canada. See picasa for more photos ...

Övärlden utanför Seattle, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

Övärlden utanför Seattle

A travel blog entry by josma

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... , av en underbart snäll vän till Johan, ut till ett färjeläge där en färja kunde ta oss ut till vår destination Friday Harbor. Vi missade precis färjan med det gjorde inget då vi fick lite tid att komma ikapp med skrivandet här. Ett par timmar ...

Saturday in Friday Harbor, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, United States travel blog

Saturday in Friday Harbor

A travel blog entry by burtonll

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We wandered downtown, checking it out. Details ...

Another Spidey Tale, Ferry to Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

Another Spidey Tale

A travel blog entry by burtonll

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Matt has had his head in the book since we came upstairs to get coffee and juice. What Makes Flamingos Pink? Indeed. He begins to laugh, well, what, I say, my emotions seriously divided. This ferry ticket cost $54, I'm thinking, so by criminy, at ...

Yes, We Have No Spaghetti, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, United States travel blog

Yes, We Have No Spaghetti

A travel blog entry by burtonll

Back into town for dinner. We're starved! We'd seen the Italian place earlier. I wanted spaghetti. But, that's not what we got. Details ...

Ricky Bobby Saves the Day, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, United States travel blog

Ricky Bobby Saves the Day

A travel blog entry by burtonll

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OK, so we're done with toodling around San Juan Island. What say we get in this relatively short-looking ferry line? The Ferry Guide Person scribbles a number on our windshield. Matt wants ice cream. I'm hot and tired and hungry. I want FOOD. Like, ...

San Juan's killer islands, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

San Juan's killer islands

A travel blog entry by mattersdorff

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... 3 hours north of Seattle to the small port town of Anacortes where we drove onto a car ferry which took us over to Friday Harbour on the main San Juan Island. It was a gorgeous sunny day, quite unlike the volatile weather we had encountered throughout ...

Plan från San Juan till Seattle, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

Plan från San Juan till Seattle

A travel blog entry by josma

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En galet trevligt morgon på ett väldigt snajsigt hotell (så fort vi visade oss sa hotellpersonalen att "oh, there´s our adoooorable couple, oh... u are just so CUTE!!!" o så fick vi väldigt ledsna miner när vi gick, efter att vi lärt dem frasen ...

Back in the USA, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

Back in the USA

A travel blog entry by mvpandora

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... boats and seaplanes coming and going.  Our next stop was Reid Harbor on Stuart Island, then Parks Bay and today we are at Friday Harbor, WA.  We will spend the night here then go south to Puget Sound for a while.  We have had an amazing ...

A disappointing adventure, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

A disappointing adventure

A travel blog entry by mlloyd

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... Islands, in the hopes of seeing orca, or at least porpoises or harbor seals. First, we had to make the ferry from Anacortes to Friday Harbor. I determined that if we didn’t catch the 8:45 am ferry, we’d run too great a risk of missing the ...

Whale watching tour, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

Whale watching tour

A travel blog entry by ptbob

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The whale watching tour was very relaxing and the wildlife (minus Orcas) was still worth it. The resident pod decided to go out to sea so we didn't see any Orca but we did see seal ions, seals, Dalls porpoises, big horn sheep, deer and my favorite and ...

Do Pay the Ferryman, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

Do Pay the Ferryman

A travel blog entry by bn2010usa

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... . Late in the afternoon we drove around the island and amongst other things spotted some more wildlife: some Black Tailed Deer and a Harbor Seal sunning itself on a rock. Next Day You can see we had a successful whale watching trip. Two Orcas swam right ...

Oh say can you see! Seattle and Friday Harbor, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

Oh say can you see! Seattle and Friday Harbor

A travel blog entry by bchawaii

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The beautiful Northwest in fall.. Nothing like it. Boeing Museum, Space Needle, Puget Sound, Victoria Clipper and ever lovely Friday ...

Day 2: Kelp Forest, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

Day 2: Kelp Forest

A travel blog entry by l.g.

Today, I got wet, but saw Mount Ranier from the island, other mountains on the Olympic Penisula, and the splash from whales, and the heads of seals. When we got to Cattle Point today, we hiked in. We got to a kelp bed, and I of course, slipped on a ...

Time to enjoy the island, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

Time to enjoy the island

A travel blog entry by wdhm058

... - heaven help them in Winter! We continued around the island and saw the lavendar farm, alpaca farm and assorted interesting sites. Friday Harbor is much bigger than we expected and very beautiful. The scenery is gorgeous - so lush and green to our eyes. ...

The best laid plans..., Parks Bay, Shaw Island, United States travel blog

The best laid plans...

A travel blog entry by mvpandora

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... set the anchor, we finally decided we must be trying to anchor in some rocks, gave up and went around Jones Island towards Friday Harbor and stopped in Parks Bay.  This is a really peaceful bay, protected from the southern winds.  The property ...

Searching for Whales in San Juan Islands, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

Searching for Whales in San Juan Islands

A travel blog entry by dubnation

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... before the ship headed back to Seattle. This allowed us to grab a bite to eat and do a brief bit of sightseeing. Friday Harbor is a charming marina community of just over 2,000 permanent residents There are only a few streets in the main downtown area ...

San Juan Islands, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

San Juan Islands

A travel blog entry by nahury1

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Wildlife... wild, and unpredictable, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

Wildlife... wild, and unpredictable

A travel blog entry by trapp1700

... featured art from local artists. Then we grabbed lunch at just about the only thing open, the Downriggers restaurant there on the harbor.  The food was absolutely delicious, especially their crab cake.  We both had a salad, mom with salmon and ...

Pix From the Whale Watching Trip, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

Pix From the Whale Watching Trip

A travel blog entry by tomdart07

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The battery's charged again...here are a few of the shots from the whale watching trip on the 26th...got a LOT ...

Our last day with Clyde, San Juan Island, United States travel blog

Our last day with Clyde

A travel blog entry by glen_linda

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... next 13 yea4rs, but the conflict was solved peacefully through arbitration by German Kaiser Wilhelm I, who ruled in favor of the United States.  The remains of the British and American forts are now part of San Juan Island National Historical Park. ...

The Boys are back in town..., Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

The Boys are back in town...

A travel blog entry by mvpandora

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There are 15-25 knot winds forecast for tonight and tomorrow night so we are trying to decide where to go hide.  There is also a 3 ft - 4 ft minus tide for the next couple of days so we want to go somewhere deep.  The big excitement ...

Ready to go, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

Ready to go

A travel blog entry by seacastle

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Waiting for the ash to ...

San Juan Islands, Friday Harbor,  United States travel blog

San Juan Islands

A travel blog entry by got2go

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Betty sur la route: 21-24 mai - 21 mai: Départ de Sidney sur l'île de Vancouver direction Friday Harbor sur les San Juan Islands qui appartiennent aux États-unis. Notre deuxième expérience de traversier s'avère plus ...

San Juan Island, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

San Juan Island

A travel blog entry by sarzmc

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... of foxes that had come to sneak some dinner as well.   That evening we decided to treat ourselves to dinner overlooking Friday Harbour, which was lovely. Afterwards we had a drink in the local pub - an interesting place to people-watch.   ...

The San Juans 2007, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

The San Juans 2007

A travel blog entry by scott_and_amy

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While we were in Washington State we had to jump up to the San Juan Islands for a couple of days on Chris and Karen's boat. So once again the weather was questionable, ie raining, windy and cold, in Seattle the day we took off, thus we got some rough ...

It's Popeye the harbor seal, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

It's Popeye the harbor seal

A travel blog entry by kevinonxm

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... trip. After the show we decided to go check out the ferry dock, then there was a ferry leaving so we decided to ride over to Friday Harbor for dinner, then we decided to walk to a small inn and spend the night, then we walked to the rental car agency and ...

Home at Last, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

Home at Last

A travel blog entry by seacastle

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After a couple of planes, two shuttles and a taxi, arrived home.  There is nothing like the Pacific Northwest!  Back to the cool mists, the water, the mountains and trees.  Love it!  Thinking hard about those museums and rune stones ...

San Juan Islands, Friday Harbor, United States travel blog

San Juan Islands

A travel blog entry by carlosherbane

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... on, we sailed past Lopez Island on the left and Shaw Island on the right. After passing Browne Island, we finally arrived at Friday Harbour. After disembarking, we unsuccessfully tried to hire a couple of scooters due to the fact that we did not have our ...

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