Sunday, July 22, 2012

Oregon and Washington State 2012

We have made it to the San Juan Islands to visit with cousins after leaving Portland Or. visiting with friends.  Below are some photos from the trip so far.

 Fresh organic berries at the Portland farmers market.



 Portland Rose Garden
 Trail Head in the North Cascades -- We have a limited time so we headed for the closest, highest trailhead we could get to.  We were staying in Sedro Woolley for the night before catching the ferry into the San Juan Islands.
 The top of the trail was snow and much cooler -- really nice but the views were obscured by clouds.

 More from the trail




 You can see that we were certainly not the first on the trail but the road had on;y been open for three days when we drove into the trail head.



 Marmot at the bend in the trail.  They make a loud high pitched whistle that makes you look to the sky for a hawk or eagle.  


Marmot guarding the trail. 

 Above the clouds -- beautiful.
 The trail

 glacier lilies



 Glacier Lilies















 Marmots playing in the high meadow.







 More wild life.



 On the ferry watching a pod of Orca.


 Much Dungeness Crabs were consumed!



 Chuck trying to transfer his thoughts about blogging.
Chuck helping with this Blog.



Next blog in a few weeks.  Darryl