Friday Harbor
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whale watching at San Juan Islands
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
... 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
... , 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 ...
Another Spidey Tale
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
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
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
... 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
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
... 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
... 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
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
... . 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
The beautiful Northwest in fall.. Nothing like it. Boeing Museum, Space Needle, Puget Sound, Victoria Clipper and ever lovely Friday ...
Day 2: Kelp Forest
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
... - 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...
... 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
... 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 ...
Wildlife... wild, and unpredictable
... 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
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
... 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...
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 ...
San Juan Islands
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
... 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
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
... 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
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
... 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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