Washington Trip Report part 31 - Chuckanut Drive
After having had our fill of looking for swans we decided to head south to Fir Island. We needed to buy a state lands pass to go there and there's no way to get one there, so we went via another state park that had an honor box for buying passes and bought one. (This was a problem for me for pretty much the whole trip. I would have bought an annual pass if I'd been able to find a place to buy one but November is not a good time to find a way to do that. Most of the places I wanted to go didn't even offer a way to buy a day pass. Next time I make a trip to Washington it will hopefully be planned enough in advance to buy a pass in advance and have it sent to me.)
The route we took involved driving south on Chuckanut Drive, which offers spectacular views, or at least it would have offered them if there had been less fog and rain.
(Clicking on any photo will take you to a larger version)
A foggy view of Bellingham Bay
And an even foggier view
Here's a great rarity - a photo of me, taken by my cousin who has at times been a professional photographer. Notice all the rain spots on my jacket.
Eventually we got back on the interstate highway for a while and found our way to Fir Island. It was very rainy and windy by then. People had been seeing a Gyrfalcon at Fir Island and I wanted to look for it since I've never seen one, but the weather was utterly terrible by the time we got there and we didn't have much time because it was getting dark. We walked around in the cold, windy rain a little bit but I didn't take any photos. I did go back the next morning, which I'll get to in my next post.
The route we took involved driving south on Chuckanut Drive, which offers spectacular views, or at least it would have offered them if there had been less fog and rain.
(Clicking on any photo will take you to a larger version)
A foggy view of Bellingham Bay
And an even foggier view
Here's a great rarity - a photo of me, taken by my cousin who has at times been a professional photographer. Notice all the rain spots on my jacket.
Eventually we got back on the interstate highway for a while and found our way to Fir Island. It was very rainy and windy by then. People had been seeing a Gyrfalcon at Fir Island and I wanted to look for it since I've never seen one, but the weather was utterly terrible by the time we got there and we didn't have much time because it was getting dark. We walked around in the cold, windy rain a little bit but I didn't take any photos. I did go back the next morning, which I'll get to in my next post.