July, 2022
To the east of Camano Island, over on the mainland, and just a bit north of Camano Island, is a small town called La Conner. Here’s another link to a website that talks about the history of La Conner. I’d never driven the country roads to La Conner, although I’ve cruised there in my boat, and stayed in the marina there, many times. So today, I explored new territory in my big white truck. She is such a good truck!
Got into town and immediately headed towards the marinas north of town. But I found something else first … a campground! And it is now on my list as a future camping destination.
The campsite below is my favorite. It’s at the end of a line of campsites … there’s not a soul to the right, and out past those tall trees in the photo below is a humungous field, so no neighbors there either. The blue table to the left of that blacktop parking spot is also part of this one campsite, so there’s plenty of room between this campsite and the one to the left. Towhee the Trailer would be backed onto the blacktop spot, and my big white truck would be backed into the spot right in front of that blue table. How sweet.
#61 … one of these days MY name will be on that little slip of paper. 🙂
Then I drove to the public marina for a view of a marina that is so well-known to me. It’s always pretty here.
The photo below was taken some years ago when I was here with my 40-foot 1939 Matthews Standard Sedan cruiser Pied Piper for the wooden boat show here. I think she was the oldest wood boat here that year. Ok, maybe second oldest, right after my friends’ boat Shearwater. 🙂
The photo below is of the helm (the steering station) of the boat inside the main cabin. There are a few “new” (1960’s) additions to the gauges since 1939, but mostly it’s original, including the great big huge shiny compass binnacle … brass with an aluminium coating. Polish, polish, polish! 🙂 [And yes, they called it aluminium back then … and the British still call it that.]
To add to the boat’s own gorgeous attributes, I liked adding a few of my own touches (photo below). Look in through the door (two photos above) and you can see the lamp and the green glass of herons that’s on the “dash board” of the boat … in the photo below.
Ok, so enough of my talking about and sharing photos of a boat that I USED to own. Walking down memory lane. 🙂 One of these days, I’ll post some blog posts about this very fine boat.
After seeing that La Conner campground with that great campsite, and taking a peek at the marina (and remembering memories), then it was time to drive back (in the big white truck) to the campground on Camano Island for my last evening there.
After I ate my dinner, I walked up the road to the nest where the young eagle was earlier this week. Was she still there? Had she flown? I hoped she hadn’t flown … and yet I hoped she had.
Well … here’s the video. She was still there. I so wanted her to fly while I was watching her. And yet, what a thrill to watch her get ready. She opened her mouth several times, but she never called … and I heard no other eagles in the area calling.
Tomorrow morning I leave this place. I’ll be hitching up and heading home. I surely don’t want to leave. Tonight inside my little trailer, I’ll go to sleep and dream of this young eagle and I’ll see her in my dreams on her way, on strong wings, high up in the sky, with her heart full of joy.