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Whidbey Island


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This post was published on Saturday 17 August 2013.

On Thursday morning, we all got up and started packing like crazy..  Annie, her mum Dianne, Abbie, Jen and I were heading on a road trip to the Olympic Peninsula.  On Thursday we were joined by Steve and Stephanie, before Annie finished work and joined us for evening pizza.

The packing was a little crazy.. we had a big camp stove and a big cooler packed with yummy food, which meant space was at a premium!  I did manage to fit the jigsaw together though, and fit everything into the boot (with a small overflow into the rest of the car!).

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The completed jigsaw
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Useless Bay Coffee Co.

And so off we headed, up to the ferry across to Whidbey Island.  It’s quite small, but there is a lot to do on there!  Our first stop was for coffee and lunch at the Useless Bay Coffee Company’s cafe.

After lunch we did a little exploring around the town (Langley).  Stephanie and I found a small wine-tasting place for me to sample some local wines, try some local chocolate and some local fudge, and visit a crazy art / rug / knick-knack store, called ‘Music for the Eyes’.

The best thing in the shop were the chairs, cut out of enormous trees by an artist using a chainsaw!  I decided I needed the large one for my study, to write sermons in.

Apart from the problem of getting it home, it was on sale for $5000, so it was a little out of my price range.

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The Inn at Langley

Stephanie and I visited one of their friends, Alice, who works at The Inn at Langley.  There was a beautiful garden on the approach to the main building, with a couple of awesome penguins atop a small water feature!

The next stop was the beach.. it felt quite a lot like visiting the beach in Wales, as it was overcast, and threatening rain.  What was different, was the make-up of the sand; it was a mix of sand and clay.  That meant it was hard to skim with the stones, as all the flat ones were actually clay.

But, it meant that the bluff was solid enough to climb up.. so we did!  Abbie, Jen and I made it all the way to the top, where we (along with many other people) carved our names into the bluff-face.

Finally we headed back to Langley for some (delicious) pizza and to collect Annie from the ferry, as she had now finally finished her work.  There was a lot of sleeping going on..

After our delicious pizza on the waterfront, the five of us who were staying on the peninsula headed to the port for the last ferry of the day over to the peninsula.  We were trusting that we would find a campsite on the other side, because we weren’t able to reserve anywhere to stay.  I’m not saying what happened, as this post is about Whidbey Island, and once we stepped on the ferry we were no longer on the island..