Next stop, Anacortes, Washington.  We are located right on Fidalgo Bay.  While Mark was hooking up the bus, I was enjoying the beautiful clearness of the sky and what did I behold?  An eagle going fishing right in front of us!  It then flew into a tree where is spent the rest of the day.  The same thing happened on subsequent days with the bonus of another eagle joining the first!  I was in heaven.

Look closely and you can see their white heads in the top of the tall tree and on the bottom on the branch sticking out to the left.

One day we went whale watching.  Now I have to tell you about a time when we took the girls to do this on a windy day off Newport News, VA.  Everyone was sick and we saw nothing but the horizon.  This time we started out in a thick fog hoping for not much but after a couple hours we happened into three pods of orcas doing amazing orca acrobatics.  Have to say, our camera sucks so instead here is a picture of the Lego orca in Vancouver, BC.

Looks just like all the orcas we saw, only more lumpy.

So, in Anacortes there is this trail around the town that is called “The Tommy Thompson.”  One day I was bored while Mark was washing the motorhome and went walking the leg nearest where we were camped.  It crossed the Bay and was full of informative signs and sights.  On the way back I was reading a sign about an arch over the walkway and saw movement below me in the water.  There were two river otters like those we had at the aquarium in NC.  What a treat to see these reclusive critters in their native habitat.  Also saw a harbor seal out for a swim, arctic terns on vacation, cormorants going fishing, and glaucous-winged gulls.   It was worth it!

But, lest I forget to tell you about the trip from Port Angeles to Anacortes, let me digress for a moment.  We made most of our reservations in January and the one which worried us all was the one on which we would load the motorhomes on a ferry and sail across the Straits of Juan de Fuca.  Our rigs are not small nor light.  So we set out early and got to the ferry terminal in Port Townsend so early that the lady quickly took our $96 each, told us we had two minutes to get on board and waved us through.  After all our terrible premonitions, this turned out to be a walk in the park, or on water, maybe. Straight in, straight out, a bit tightly fit in the ferry bay.  Even the cats had fun looking out the windows.

Next up, Vancouver,  BC.