July, 2021
Today was my first full day day in the Lake Goodwin area, so I took the truck out for a spin and just drove with no destination in mind … just looking around and enjoying the area. Let me share a selection of photos from the day with you. It was a lovely day. 🙂
Left, right, no left … but right would be … no left, no right … ok right … well what about left?
Ok, sigh, we finally turned left. What could be wrong with heading towards a lake and a boat launch, eh?
Here I am parked at the side of the launch “ramp”. There was a car already parked there when I arrived, but there was not another human in sight.
And here’s the boat “ramp” below. You wouldn’t want to back your truck/car very far into that water in order to off-load or re-load your boat from/to the trailer. After just five or six feet out into that water, it was pretty soft mud under that water. But power boats are not allowed on this lake, so it’s likely that everyone launches small boats here … kayaks, rowboats, or small electric boats. The lake sure was pretty on this gorgeous day.
And then I left the lake and headed out on some wider roads towards the west and north of Lake Goodwin. I didn’t go far! There were lots of great things to see.
Above and below, an enormous field of hay, cut and dried and ready for baling.
A little further up that same road, or hmmm maybe off on a side road … I drove through a small housing community and found the view below that looked across the tide flats and then over to Camano Island. That tide was WAY out right then. When the tide is in, all you can see is water and it looks like very deep water. Smart boaters don’t go in here much … it’s really shallow even at high tide.
Tide flats … or mud flats.
Around another bend in the road was this barn. Look at those windows. Somebody spent a good deal of extra time and effort installing them like that. I liked it.
And then I headed back towards my Boondocking home and found this extraordinarily wonderful really back road through the woods.
The drive took 3 or 4 hours, not that I went very far, but I stopped often and took photos or just stopped to enjoy something, to stand and watch the tide start back in, to listen to the birds, to stay a bit and admire that barn, or just enjoy the fresh air and sunshine.
As I was driving back onto the property where I was camped, I noticed these folks below … the two deer and, of course, the Energizer Moose. As soon as I got the truck parked, Little Towhee jumped out and headed over to say hello to her neighbors.
She tried real hard to say the nicest things, but these folks seemed frozen with … what? fear? wonder at seeing Little Towhee? blinded by the sun?
Little Towhee gave up and went over to chat with the Energizer Moose. She was sure that someone as wide-eyed as he was would have lots of things to say.
She hopped and danced and flitted all around him and said all the right things. But Mr. Moose was unresponsive. Ah well, Little Towhee just shook her head and wished them well, and we walked back through the woods to Towhee the Trailer for a nice afternoon nap.