Skagit Bay to Indianola and back

September 14^th, La Conner, Washington. We arrived at our Thousand Trails La Conner campground a little after mid-day.  We found a terrific campsite that offered a great view of Skagit Bay, while still offering plenty of shade from the evergreens. Skagit Bay is actually a bay and strait; it is part of the Whidbey Island Basin of Puget Sound, and is situated at the eastern end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.  Find Victoria British Columbia on a map and move your finger due east.  La Conner sits at the end of a peninsula that juts into Skagit Bay.  If any of our blog readers have never been to this part of the good old USA, all I can say is, this is beautiful, beautiful country.  Simply put, this is the Great Pacific Northwest at its very, very, very best. Yours truely took all three of these photos on the shore of Skagit Bay, just down from our campsite.  Pretty good, eh, Jon?

We were staying at La Conner so that we could visit with Lynette’s Aunt Judy (her Mom’s younger sister) and her husband, Mick, further south in Puget Sound at the little village of Indianola.  We took off early Saturday morning, drove to Edmonds, and caught the Edmonds-Kingston Ferry over to Kingston that sits on the eastern edge of the Olympic Peninsula. 

 The drive to Edmonds took a little over an hour and we parked the car and rode across as passengers.  Judy & Mick picked us up at the dock in Kingston, where we spent about 30 minutes or so looking around a Farmer's Market.  We drove thru the little town/village Indianola on our way to their cottage. What a quaint little town – such charm about the whole place.  And both Judy and Mick seemed very smitten with the whole setting and environment – and they should be.  They have a simply beautiful little cottage overlooking the water. It looks right across the Sound to Seattle and also has an outstanding view of Mt Rainier in the distance.  It was hazy for us that day, but we could only imagine what a clear day would reveal.  The photo above looks out at their "lower" patio (we ate lunch on that spot) which has a terrific view of Puget Sound.  The photo below looks north from that same patio, along the shoreline.  We took our "walk" to the town's General Store right along the shore, albeit at low tide, of course!

 

 Since it was low tide, we took a walk on the beach on our way to the little General Store in Indianola where we got lunch and brought it back to eat.  We sat out on their lower patio and ate lunch, looking out over the Sound.  We had just a simply beautiful day of weather to be outside.  Judy was so pleased that we took the time to visit them...and we told them we'd most definitely be back!  They really have a very lovely place and a magnificent view of the Sound and Seattle in the distance -- and we can see why they spend almost their entire summer out here.  Judy fixed a lovely dinner; Mick grilled some salmon he'd caught fishing...and we ate dinner outside again until it was almost dark.  Guess we left about 9pm or so, to catch the ferry back to Edmonds.  All in all, we were so glad we made the trip, since we had such a great time.  Thanks, Judy and Mick for be,ing such gracious hosts and wonderful family!

Before leaving La Conner, I must say something about our ABSOLUTELY wonderful site that overlooked Skagit Bay.  The water was only about 50 yards from our front door and we backed the motorhome in, so we had a terrific view of the water.  We definitely plan to come back to La Conner.
 

Sunset over Skagit Bay