Nearby Camano Island was our target for\ntoday. Peggy tells me that I have been there before but we were\nhalfway through today’s excursion before I recognized anything. It\nturns out that she was correct and I was merely forgetful. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tWe started today’s journey with a trip\nto the La Conner second hand store so Peggy could reluctantly ashcan\nsome of the stuff we have been hauling around for the last five\nyears. She was very strong and dumped the stuff in the box without\neven a shudder. I was very proud of her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tThen we were off across the Skagit\nRiver Valley and massive delta toward Camano Island. It is a\nbeautiful drive with magnificent green forest, the Cascades and\nfarmland below the horizon and beautiful azure skies above. Over the\nbridge and we were onto the island. The northern end and northeastern\nedge of the island is pretty heavily developed with many snazzy\nhouses, almost all of them within view of the water. And a terrific\nview it is! At the northern end, we pulled into a tiny park called\nUpsalady where we could gaze out over the sound and the single\nhomeless guy comfy on a bench looking north. From this end, Mount\nBaker, the enormous volcano, can be seen; it is the horizon. We also\nwere delighted to find an adolescent bald eagle nested in a very\nshort tree right in the park. He made quite a few noises at us before\nhe took to the wing and split. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eventually we moseyed on to the west side of the island and entered a much more rural and splendid environment. Massive firs and cedars grow right down to the waterline and the views into the San Juan Islands offshore are terrific. Lots of the property is privately owned but the lot sizes are much bigger here. We passed many gravel driveways but could see few of the houses hidden in the dense forest. We stopped in at both of the state parks on the island’s west side \u2013 Cama Beach Historical State Park and Camano Island State Park \u2013 where we bought a Washington Discover Pass that allows access to all state parks for a year. The parks are very nice. We stopped for a bit at Cama and enjoyed the views of the Sound and Whidbey Island across a wide strait. Warm, cloudless, sunny days are rare in this part of the world and Washingtonians had flocked to the area to see it before Ragnarok. We even spotted a guy nearly my age\nwearing a skimpy pair of Speedos so we left. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We continued our circuit, wandering down to the south end of the island before heading up the east side and back to the bridge returning us to the mainland. Camano Island offers a great journey through a pretty place although the residential section at the north end is not that great unless, of course, you own one of the nice houses overlooking the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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