Except for a night in Vancouver, i basically breezed through Washington State to get to Canada. Because of the time and date that i was to pick up my friend's stuff at her friend's house, that's the way it worked out. I stopped in Bellingham, WA on the way up to get gas and drove through it. I picked up a tourist mag about it and it had some cool pics of the downtown, so i decided to drop by on the way back and check it out a little bit more.
Bellingham is where the Alaskan Ferry System begins and ends. Someday i want to experience that journey.
This building is now the Whatcom County museum.
A zoom in of the top.
Closer to it.
This is the downtown area. Lots of cool monuments, cafes, restaurants etc.
This was the view i saw in their tourist mag.
This is at the Whatcom County Courthouse, which Bellingham hosts as the county seat.
This is one of the most beautiful specimens of the Dawn Redwood i have ever seen. This tree is the third species of sequoia that was found only in China. It is planted as ornamentals elsewhere these days. From the looks of this one, it like Bellingham a lot!
That's it for Bellingham. Wish i had more time to spend, because i thought it was a pleasant city to linger a while. I next headed south down Highway 11 from Bellingham on the coast to Larrabee State Park. It has stunning views of the San Juan Islands in the Puget Sound. I have been disappointed in a lot of the Washington coast because of excess development, but this park proved to deliver the goods for scenic coastline with gorgeous views of some of the least developed islands in the sound.
This beach proved popular with humans and sea gulls alike.
I lingered for an hour here but time was elapsing and i still had 50 miles or so til Anacortes, where i would fill my truck up with my friend's most precious items. The pressure was on!
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