September 22, 2013 Anacortes, Washington

We decided to go to Anacortes and taste the beer at the two breweries.  Little did we know.

That today was the day of the  32nd annual Oyster Run, the largest motorcycle run in  Washington state. Last year they had 1,500 bikers in town for it. We could not get near the breweries and it was pouring rain.  We wandered around and looked at bikers and the booths, mostly selling leather, helmets, knives, food, booze and t shirts.

Looking the other way down main street. There were these murals of people all over town, many of the original settlers  of town. This Sasquatch looked like it had been embellished.

We left and went back to Deception Pass State park and the sun came out. We went to the tide pools. There were these two wood carvings interpreting an old Salish legend of an Indian princess named  Kw?  Kw`al? lw? t – pronounced  kwuh-kwal-uhl-wut, who fell in love with a sea god and went to live under the sea with him. This first one is the sea god.

This one was the princess.  The sea weed in the water is her hair. Here I am with my pants rolled up in the tide pools.

The tide was coming back in so we mostly saw these anemones, barnacles, and snails. Then hiked over to Bowman bay to check out the campground there. It was a lovely bay, campsites right on the water, but John does not want to move.

There was an exhibit about the CCC and the parks they built in Washington, like this one. Here is a cooking shelter they built.

A detail of a latch they made in the blacksmiths shop. Back at our campground we checked out sunset over Cranberry lake, which one of many fresh water lakes on the island. A great blue heron reflected.

Sunset reflected.

 

Cool colors on the water.

Back at the bus I was serving homemade mac and cheese , only to turn around and find Johns face buried in the bacon garnish, like a horse with a bag on.  .  .