Today was another travel day. We gathered up our stuff and crammed it into the trailer, checked under the wheels for wayward children and pulled out of our space for the short haul to the dump station. We seem to be making a lot of trips to the dump station this trip. Washington RV parks are quite beautiful but they almost all have no sewer hookups and lousy wifi. We’ll survive this.
By about 11:00 AM we were out of the Mount Vernon Thousand Trails and headed northbound on I-5 toward Canada. About a mile short of the border we turned off I-5 and headed west to the Thousand Trails Birch Bay, just a bit down the road from Blaine, WA. Our travel distance and time were short today so we arrived at the park a bit after noon. It is fortunate that we arrived early in the day because we got the last available campsite in the section of the park we prefer. Oddly, it also offered a sewer hookup.
From in front of our RV park, we can look north across Semiahmoo Bay and into White Rock in British Columbia. If we look south we can see Birch Bay and the Strait of Georgia. We had time to burn this afternoon so we started with a short trip to Birch Bay. Birch Bay is a nice little place with a few touristy shops and some stunning beachfront houses. Adjoining the south edge of town is Birch Bay State Park offering a long beach, day-use facilities along the shore and a campground with no utility hookups. The campground is located in a splendid forest that offers deep shade in all the camping spots we saw. I would like to return to Birch Bay because it looks like they have a good beachfront tavern where dogs are welcome. They also have a great view of the Strait of Georgia and the islands between WA and Vancouver Island.
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