"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
Lake Union Kayaking
Our friends Bob and Tamara offered use of the Kayak and we thought a mid 70's Saturday afternoon was the perfect day to take them out. Ted had to referee in the morning and we knew the trails close to the city would be a hot mess.
We decided to head west through the shipping canal to see if we could find some of the boats from Deadliest Catch and if we could reach the locks out to the Puget Sound. As you can imagine the canal was busy with kayakers and boats which made it a little less fun, but we did find The Wizard. It's still a good sized boat, but it is smaller than you would think for a crabbing boat battling the Behring Sea. We didn't make it to the locks and honestly not sure we'd ever want to kayak that far... We made it to the Ballard bridge and that was enough for us since we had to trek it back. Once back to the Aurora and Freemont bridge where we started, we decided to paddle the lake for a bit. By no means did we go around the lake (maybe next time), we simply checked out some of the house boats and floated for a bit. Is a kayak in our future? Too soon to tell.
Tulips, Tulips, Daffodils and more Tulips!
Buying our tickets for the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival months ago we lucked out and ended up with a beautiful sunny, 70 degree day at Tulip Town! The Mount Vernon area is about an hour north of Seattle and is sandwiched in between the sound and the Cascade Mountain range. This part of the state is a bit more agriculture and known for the fields of daffodils and tulips in the spring.
Our three hour ticket allowed us to take in five acres of tulips, gardening center where you can buy fresh cut flowers, order bulbs and farmers market!
Check out @tuliptown on Facebook or Instagram to see there sunrise and sunset field check photos and videos.
After our tulip walkabout we looked for a spot on the sound to soak in the sun and spot for whales. Grey and Orca Whales have been spotted in the sound down towards Tacoma up through the Salish Sea (body of water between Washington State and Canada), and as the name implies Orca Island for the past 30+ days, so we thought we might get lucky.
We decided to check out Deception State Park which is located on Whidbey Island. We were able to reach the island by bridge but opted to take the ferry back. Though we didn't spot any whales from shore, we did see a harbor porpoise, at least we think it was a harbor porpoise. Deception State Park is a spot we will need to spend more time at - and maybe even camp at... Ask Ted to tell you about camping and registering for camping gifts... he think's it's hilarious. It's not. In short, living in the PNW has inspired me to give camping more of an effort. Let's be honest, camping in the PNW is way better than camping in Wisconsin. Sorry, not sorry.
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