October, 2024
This will be my last blog post for this 2024 Deception Pass State Park camping trip (but more camping trips are coming!). I’d like to share just a few photos from throughout the week here, just one or two photos from separate places throughout the week. All are fond memories for me. Thought you might enjoy them too. 🙂
Above … the big white truck parked on Fidalgo Island so I could take photos looking back (south) towards Whidbey Island and at the Deception Pass Bridge.
Above, looking along both bridges of the Deception Pass bridge, total of about 1/3 of a mile, built in 1934-35 and still safe and sturdy. Click on photos to enlarge them.
Above, a view of the salt water exiting Deception Pass. As the tide goes out, the water heads west (to the right), outbound from Puget Sound. The beach over there on Whidbey is the beach where I found the alligator log, the harbor seal, and the river otters.
Above … looking west towards the Pacific Ocean from Fidalgo Island, with Whidbey on the left.
Photo above showing the larger/longer portion of the Deception Pass bridge … this photo was taken from the beach on Whidbey that’s WAY out at the point of land in the photo above this one.
A hawk … a red-tailed hawk? It stayed right there while I parked the truck on the side of the road, and while I got out of the truck to take the photo. Then it gave me a wink and flew off.
The photo above is of a community along West Beach Road, but a couple of miles south of the state park, where there is a very narrow bit of land that runs between the salt water of Puget Sound on the left and the fresh water lake on the right, much like Cranberry Lake up in the state park.
The photo below is of a community of homes right on the salt water, south of the one above. Check out the huge boulders that were brought in by barge years ago, to protect the sand from eroding and to protect the homes from the storms from the ocean. Today, all was calm and peaceful.
Above … I was looking out from that beach above, looking west towards the ocean (many miles away), when I saw these two boats/ships passing each other. I couldn’t see the name of the smaller commercial fishing vessel heading south towards the USA. The name of the large ship heading north towards Canada is “Golden Alaska“. Here’s a link to information about it.
And here below is a sweet friend who greeted me on one of my drives along some of the back roads of south Whidbey Island.
Ah, and here’s another friend below …
And then I drove past the Holly Farm (bel0w) … this farm was there when I lived here as a child, a LOT of years ago. I remember when the holly trees were first planted, those youngster trees! 🙂
Today, these trees are full grown, full of holly berries and leaves, magnificent.
There are a number of different varieties of holly trees/berries grown here, many acres of them up the hill to the left, MANY acres, hundreds of trees. The two photos below show just two different varieties.
And here below is one of the largest trunks that I could see from the road. What a grand magnificent tree that is. Again, as with so many things in life, I simply stood and “listened”.
And then, back to my home, my wonderful Towhee the Trailer.
In the photo below, you can see that narrow bit of land that separates Cranberry Lake in the foreground from the ocean’s salt water just past that bit of land. In fact, if you look really closely, you can see a small power boat out on the salt water heading to the right, maybe on its way into Deception Pass, or maybe headed into the San Juan Islands. I remember cruising by here too in one or the other of my boats, such wonderful memories.
And then … the last evening of this camping trip …
Blessings everyone, always.