Tuesday morning August 18, 2015 we said our goodbye’s and headed North to Port Townsend, we had a 12:30 reservation on the ferry to Whidbey Island.  We arrived at the ferry dock early about 11:15 and found out that one of the ferries was out of service.  It was a good thing that we arrived early, because of our reservation we were able to get on the 12:30 boat.  It is about a 35 minute crossing to Fort Casey, and then about another 30 miles to Fidalgo Island, and the Fidalgo Bay RV resort.

We arrived at the resort which sits on the bay just 2 ½ miles south of Anacortes, WA.  This is a very popular place and we have a spot looking out of the front windshield looking over the bay.  Anacortes is a neat little town that was once the salmon canning capital of the Northwest.  Now it is a ship building town, with tourism a major part of the economy.  There is still a lot of commercial fishing and crabbing that goes on here.

We took a whale watching tour one evening and were able to watch a pod of Orca’s for several hours up in the San Juan Islands.  I have always wanted to charter a sail boat here, and spend a week exploring the San Juan’s.  It was one of those things I had hoped to do with my mom and dad, but we never got to do.  These islands are so beautiful and unique; I would like to spend more time here someday.

Pia and I were doing some sightseeing and headed around the island, we got out at deception pass to look down from the bridge which is quite a spectacular view.  We saw a large number of people on the shoreline, I looked through the binoculars and saw they were all fishing.  We had two poles with us so we decided to check it out.  On the South side of the pass is the state park, we decided to get the annual pass and headed down to the shoreline.  We spent an hour or so fishing and saw some people bring in a few fish, but we had no luck.  The next day we decided to try again and timed it to where we got there about 2 hours before high tide.  We were not there very long before Pia hooked a pink salmon, her first ever.  It was a nice fish which we enjoyed for dinner the next day.  I did not get a bite.