Mt Baker and Friends

Our RV at Deception Pass

Greetings from North Washington State. Deception Pass State Park is about 75 north of Seattle. As we have said before, it is on two islands. It is part of the San Juan Island system. Most of the islands are small mountains that happen to be in the water. Part of the ruggedness of the coast line here is the pressure of tectonic plates (large floating land masses) running into each other. This area is a part of the “ring of fire” surrounding the Pacific Ocean from Australia through southeast and eastern Asia into Alaska, Canada, the U. S. all the way to Chile. The ring of fire describes the volcanic activity with the collision of these plates.

A lighthouse near Ft Casey on

Whidbey Island south of Deception Pass

We traveled slightly north and east of the park to try to get a view of Mt. Baker. This mountain is an active volcano (like Mt St Helens) in the ring of fire. Our hopes were to sneak into a sunny window predicted by local weatherpersons. The drive was not long, but our luck on seeing the mountain was not to be good. We did see some beautiful country. We took a short hike along a river with a tremendous flow from the snow runoff. We also saw some exotic birds (at least to us). We had a terrific meal at a little out of the way place. We are pretty sure the big clientele is cross country skiers.

Mt Baker has to be up here somewhere

Snow melt in the Cascades

Delicious Italian lunch in Glacier, WA

We found the mountain later -

a sunset view from Mt Erie near Anacortes

We also had a visit from Tom’s cousin Darlene and her husband Tony. They too have a motor home and they came up to the park for three days of fun and frolic. We ate very well (why do we keep doing that). We toured on the jet boat through Deception Pass, relaxed by fires every evening and just had a wonderful time. We ate at the best little seafood restaurant (Seaboldt’s) and a funky little place (Frank’s Place). Seafood to Spam, life just doesn’t get better than that.

Darlene & Tony with Elvis

See if you can spot the 2 fledging

peregrine falcons we saw from the jet boat

Speaking of food, the host’s from the different aspects of Deception Pass got together for a first rate meal at a Greek restaurant. Our time at Deception is almost up. We have had the pleasure of meeting fine folks; Tim and Jeanine, Tom and Ginny, Lou and Alyss and Paul and Ruth. We even discovered that Tom and Ginny’s nephew was in the Tulane Law School graduation class with Stephen. Small world is it not.

Fireside chat with fellow camp hosts

Ready to kayak - one of the "perks" at Deception Pass

We thank Ryan and all the other rangers of Deception Pass. It is beautiful place. If you’re in the area, take a day or two to see it.

Peace and love go out to you all.

Mt Baker - one last view