We had the pleasure of using a friends cab this past week at Hood Canal. What a beautiful place this is, I am blown away at the beauty. I looked up to the fading snow capped Olympic Mountains and I see the massive green hills covered with evergreens. As i turn to the water and I see a multitude of starfish and oysters. It’s unbelievable that the water is so clear and all this beauty is in front of my eyes. It’s so quiet and no cars, hardly any boats, birds flying by, not any bird but an eagle being chased by some birds. It’s mammoth wingspan, is this a documentary?
Hood Canal is over 70 miles long and some of the canal is used by the Navy for testing submarines. We stayed in a log cabin built by the owners. It’s a wonderful place about 3,500 sq ft. The large deck looks to the NW towards the Olympic mountain range, looking across the canal. At nighttime I looked up tot he sky to see no city lights and just stars and peace and tranquility.
After a great nights sleep, we all got up and made breakfast, Maggie wanted to go into the hot tub before eating, I had to bribe her to wait until after breakfast. If I would have let her she would have sleep in the hot tub. The hot tub is on the deck overlooking the canal. Maggie talked me into going into the hot tub with her, while Kate could not wait to get down to the boats and see about getting on the water. There is a aluminum boat but it was not water capable, but we found some windsurf boards behind the shed. So I tethered them together and the two girls wen up stream a little ways and had a blast. Peggy laid down on the shore and rested.
After a couple of days we left and headed to Bellingham to see my Dad. We headed North to Port Townsend. We got into Port Townsend around 3pm and we stopped at the Ferry booth to see about getting on the next boat. Well that’s when we meet Debbie Downer that manned the ferry booth at Port Townsend. Oh so you want to go on the Ferry to Keystone, Well it’s running an hour late and if you were going to get on the 2:30, which you’re not, because it’s running an hour late and since you didn’t get reservations that mean you’ll have to wait for the 4:45 which is running an hour late and that would be 5:45 and since you don’t have reservations for the 2;30 or the 4:45 you won’t be getting on the 5:45, so you’ll have to wait for the 7:45 and you might make that one, but since there was a lot of people waiting you may or may not make that one. Well we got in line and the fumes where coming out of my ears! I am not going to wait and wait and wait! I say lets drive south to Kingston-Edmond’s ferry and then drive north from Edmond’s to Bellingham, now that’s a lot of driving, but not knowing if we are going to get on a ferry and being stuck in Port Townsend for a night without a room? The girls wanted to wait and see if we made the first ferry. I turned the car around and started back the same way came from and 4 hours latter we arrived in Bellingham glad to get to a place we could relax.
The next morning we had bagels and lox and off we went for a walk in the woods. The walk was hard on my neck and back and couldn’t wait t finish the walk, but is was a nice walk along Lake Whatcom. It was an abandon old railroad track, with the tracks removed and turned into a park. It was amazing how many new homes are being built around the lake, were are they getting financing? My girls, including my wife Peg love old movies and so does my dad and he loves it when we come up and they all watch an oldie. I got his new flat screen working in his den and the girls and Pops hung out in the morning and watched a great oldie. After that we headed to the Saturday market and it was a beautiful day for going to the market.
We had a nice visit with Pop’s and then we needed to get home for a dinner party with Ruth and John and their family, what a whirlwind week. I truly need a vacation from our vacation.





















