On Saturday we all drove along Chuckanut Drive from southern Skagit County up to Bellingham.
It was a beautiful sunny day, with amazing views of the San Juan Islands along the way. We stopped first at Larabee State Park. No pictures, but it was pretty. Climbing on rocks and looking at tidepools at low tide, eating lunch, etc.
Then we drove into Bellingham proper, and visited Whatcom Falls Park, a city park dating back to the teens. This arch is from the stone bridge over part of the falls, built by the WPA.
Here’s the water, coming from several directions:
and a couple views of the bridge itself:
A really beautiful and well-used park (including lots of teens and twenty-somethings jumping off a rock into a pool at a spot called “the Whirlpool” as well as miles and miles of trails. We only explored one direction, and were there nearly 2 hours. Definitely one to visit again.
But…after all the driving (Sharon also visited Fort Flagler State Park with the boys on Friday), we decided that since what they really want is playgrounds, two hours in the car probably isn’t necessary to accomplish that, especially several days in a row. :) By the way, Fort Flagler is the third part of the “Triangle of Fire” created at the end of the 19th Century to protect Admiralty Inlet (the others are the better-known Fort Worden outside Port Townsend, famous as the filming location for “An Officer and a Gentleman” in the 80s, and Fort Casey, where SPU has its conference center, on Whidbey Island.)
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