TravelingMel dot com this summer we got to explore San Juan Island in the Puget
Sound We spent four nights camped out and got
to see some of the highlights and we want to share those with you.
We are taking the ferry over to San Juan Island where we will meet the Canoe
Island French camp folks who will take Anders over to the camp on a smaller
boat so we're getting ready to say goodbye to him for ten days.The summer
season the ferries are really busy so it's a great idea to make your
reservations ahead of time to assure yourself a spot on the boats. Once again the ferry
now arriving will be our 905 scheduled departure bound for Friday Harbor. wow it's so windy
out there, and it's warm and cozy in here
1. The Whale museum
we've heard that the whale museum is really good and it's one of those things
that you have to do if you come to San Juan Island so we are going to have to
do it right now
Drop kid at camp
Camp at San Juan County Park
we are camped at San Juan County Park there are only 20 sights here so we're
happy to get one we made a reservation of course because you don't get a sight
in the summer without a campground reservation. They're a little bit closer
together than what we normally like but it's also really close to the water so
we're going to go sit out there and look for whales almost from our campsite and
there's a couple of their options on the island private campgrounds there have a
lot more sights on in them but that's another option too so we're going to go
look for whales
3. Whale watching
listen to him that's what's neat too is the sound this
4. American Camp
This is the San Juan National Historic Park and we're in the American camp right now
which is where the whole pig war situation started with an American
shooting a British pig that led to high tensions all around that were solved
peacefully oh thank goodness so we just walk the history loop and we're up on
the redoubt where they were going to put the cannons because if you can see
there's a great view of ocean on two sides three sides here shoot a cannon at so it would be a perfect place to shoot at
a ship if you were so inclined
no guns
member
5. sea kayaking
we just had a great kayaking experience we went out with outdoor Odyssey
adventures because we had some friends who went last year and loved it and our
guide sev know everything about everything in the ocean and the islands
and was so good with finn which was amazing he basically paddled fin the
whole time but it was just the water was smooth and perfect and we saw lots of
jellies and seals yeah it was just a great day next time we're going full day
or maybe multi-day because it was so much fun
6. Beach Picnic
we're winding up today with a picnic dinner at South Beach and checking out
all these cool driftwood structures.
I'm getting a tour of all the structures on
the beach driftwood structures in order of bestness.
7. Sculpture park
on the north end of San Juan
Island and at roche harbor there is the San Juan Island sculpture park which is
where we are right now and it's really funky and fun all these different kinds
of sculptures there's glass and bronze and found art and flamingos and just
all sorts of beautiful interesting really disparate types of artwork here
so we're wandering around there's a few trails it's pretty big and just checking
out the artwork of San Juan
Roche Harbor
Roche Harbor It's how the other half lives now seriously
at the north end of San Juan Island it's this beautiful marina filled with really
expensive crazy boats and an old historic hotel formal gardens it's really quite
lovely so we had lunch here it's a little bit above our pay scale but it's
fun to see you once in a while and you know there's good cell service here so
if you needed to call your kid camp because you got hit by a tennis racket
and was curling up and had stitches this would be a good place to come
by travelpod member
English Camp
I love America as much as the next guy but if I had been on San Juan Island
during the American and British occupations during the pig wars I would
have wanted to live at English camp because frankly it's a whole lot nicer
here there's trees there's gentle breeze there's the bay the barracks and all the
buildings were kept up by the British they had formal gardens they were
allowed to play a little bit this is definitely the side to be on
Friday Harbor
Friday Harbor is a fun little town full of coffee shops art galleries kayak
expedition places and restaurants and this is where the
ferry lands we didn't spend too much time here although we went to the whale
museum and definitely hit the coffee shops a couple times but if you wanted
to shop and souvenir hunt and things like that this would be the place to do
it on the island
so we had a great time on San Juan Island but with only three days here
there are a lot of things we still have not done so we are going to have to come
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