We consulted the campground hostess this morning in an attempt to find the facility laundromat. It turns out that there are two laundry buildings within the La Conner Marina but not inside our park. Today was our last full day in La Conner, at least for this visit. We celebrated by doing the laundry which had grown to leviathan proportions since we last hit the washateria.

Except for a brain fart by me that increased our time commitment to this essential task, we were out of the laundry by early afternoon. That is primarily because I didn’t help Peggy, who did most of the work. It turns out that having two people on the chore, when I am one of them, does not increase efficiency nor reduce the amount of time required to finish. Funny.

We took a last little drive around La Conner and over onto the Swinomish Reservation this afternoon. We spotted a big kiddie slide shaped like a giant salmon. We found a massive pink steel single truss arch bridge. On the Swinomish side of the channel we found some gorgeous places and buildings there although there is a little section down near the water where there are some ugly tribal reservation subsidized houses. Not many folks live here but we could see they all liked their fireworks because there were piles of empty fireworks packaging in big heaps, ready for trash pickup. The streets were completely littered with little scraps of paper that used to be the casings of firecrackers. I’ll bet these folks have more in their houses.

We picked up some inexpensive diesel on the Rez, probably due to their sovereign nature which eliminates pesky federal and state fuel taxes. We returned to our trailer late in the afternoon to find a group of three bright yellow goldfinches hanging out at our bird feeder. The goldfinch is the Washington State Bird and they are quite pretty guys.

There may even be a picture of one. Click the link. https://photos.app.goo.gl/7Rdt2tuodB3HdXjg7