Today was a travel day. We broke down our stuff, stowed it and left Grandy Creek TT near Concrete, WA. We spent a total of 23 days at Grandy Creek this summer and it has been fabulous. There cannot be many places in the world that offer more stunning scenery than the Skagit River Valley and North Cascades National Park.
We headed west on WA-20, crossed I-5 and kept going west toward Anacortes which is on the edge of Puget Sound. WA-20 turns south at Anacortes and crosses Deception Pass onto Whidbey Island. Deception Pass is not really a pass or a low spot through a mountain ridge; it is a cliff-lined ocean channel between Fidalgo and Whidbey Islands. It looked rough even though it was a gorgeous day.
We drove many more slow miles down the serpentine, one-lane road that is WA-20 until we got south of Whidbey’s only real city, Oak Harbor. We continued to Coupeville where we turned off on WA-525 toward Langley. There we turned off the highway and were soon set up in the spartan Langley Fairgrounds. There is no sewer but they do have 30 amp power and water. There is a dump station. It costs $25 a night but right out the big back window of the Invader is a great view across the Sound to Camano Island. There are very few customers in the campground and it seems pretty quiet, if featureless. There are few trees and shrubs but loads of little brown bunnies who seem quite tame. I understand some years back the county fair doled out bunnies to all the kids. It seems some of the bunnies may have escaped right here in the fairgrounds. It would be shocking to think that some of the parents of the lucky kids forced them to abandon the bunnies before getting in the car to go home. No pellet-generating, fornicating rodents for Daddy.
In the afternoon we had guests. First, Dana and Devon, our daughter and her man arrived after having a long wait to get on the ferry from across the Sound in Mukilteo. Not much later, Tonie and George, Peg’s sister and brother-in-law, drove up from their gorgeous house in nearby Freeland. There was much familial gabbing and hobnobbing. I made curry chicken to feed almost all the masses. George had endured a big day prior to arrival at our trailer and started to nod off after only not many beers so they headed back home before dark. Dana and Devon stayed the night, sleeping in Dana’s Subaru. It is lucky both of them are skinny because otherwise they would never fit.
See a nice picture of a downtown Oak Harbor attraction by clicking here