Peggy and I took a loop drive around Fidalgo Island. The city of Anacortes is on Fidalgo and we drove into town before we saw a big banner over the main drag touting Shipwreck Day. Not too much further down the street we spotted a barricade across the road that had a myriad of colored tents behind it. It appeared that many people had set up booths selling stuff we could not possibly need so we turned off the main drag and headed through the residential neighborhoods of Anacortes.
Anacortes is sort of the end of the world, if you don’t count the car ferry that leaves the dock at Anacortes and stops at Lopez Island, Friday Harbor and other San Juan Islands destinations before dropping most of the cars at Sydney on Vancouver Island, B.C. You drive onto Fidalgo Island and into town from the southeast and if you don’t take the ferry you will leave back down the same road. There is ocean everywhere. There are some beautiful historic homes in town and the city, as a whole, is quite attractive. In the summer, anyway.
On our way home, we stopped by Black Rock Seafoods and stocked up the freezer with clams and albacore. We have patronized Black Rock on previous visits and have been delighted with the results.
Back in the campground, Peggy and I cleaned up from our recent get-together and picked up our outdoor stuff and stowed it back aboard the Barbarian Invader. Tomorrow we depart from La Conner and return to the absolutely gorgeous Thousand Trails Grandy Creek up WA-20 near Concrete. We spent 11 days there earlier this summer and we liked it so much we are headed back for 12 more days.
There is a picture of some of our fellow campers you can see if you click here