Day 8, October 24th, Saturday

This was our last full day at our resort and the day was beautifully clear and sunny. We decided to take a scenic drive along the coast, south toward Seattle. The name of the road was Chuckanut Drive, an area of ritzy homes, but lots of dense woodland and parks too. We had to stop as two deer crossed the road right in front of us.

I think this was a home on the coast as there were no signs to indicate it was a museum or other public building. Sure would have liked to see the inside.

In one park we hiked down to the water's edge and were lucky to see a huge crab.

Along the coast line with the Olympic mountains in the background.

A giant stump washed up on the rocky coast.

I was so happy to be in the sun. I just sat and drank it in for a while.

Because of all the moisture in the area, the trees are just spectacular. We saw so many that were incredibly tall and straight.

I don't know what this colorful tree is. At the same time we stopped, a photographer on a motorcycle stopped. He had a big fancy camera with a super duper telephoto lens and was taking shots of all the foliage. I asked him if he knew what kind of tree that was and he said no, he really wasn't that much into trees. Rather odd, considering that's what he was photographing.

Ignore the people on the rock. They just got in the way. Look at the bridge in the background. We came over that bridge and it's 180 feet in the air. And there are two sections to it. The bridge spans Deception Pass. We parked and walked back out onto the bridge and as we looked down we saw several seals playing below us. I tried to get a picture but my camera just couldn't capture them.

Seagulls are everywhere and perch on anything.

This beach was strew with big logs, escapees from some logging effort I presume. The sand was gray, not white like a Flordia beach.

This is some type of seaweed that looked like a huge cable. Not something I would want to encounter in the water.

We had traveld quite a way down a peninsula, so the most expedient way to get back was to take a ferry. We had wanted to do that while we were there anyway, so welcomed the chance. This one held about 100 cars and was a 20 minute ride on the water. Upstairs there were two seating areas like the one in the picture below, plus a snack bar and bathrooms.

Self portrait of us on the ferry ride.

View from our car, approaching land. We were one of the first ones off. The ride cost us $7.00 or was it less because we were seniors and the ticket taker didn't even ask us our ages? That happened more than once, so I guess we just have to accept the fact that we ARE seniors and look it.