A Whidbey Walk

Last Thursday at the Whidbey Island cabin, with the work done and the tulips visited, I went for a walk up the hill above Useless Bay.

A view of Useless Bay and Double Bluff from the top of Sunlight Beach road. 

Across the road, on Homestead Ave., sits the old homestead farm house. 

I headed down Bayview Road to see what I could see. 

An old holly farm, still producing.

The roadside  brush includes salmon berry

and elderberry. 

Big leaf maple flowers

I walked down into this upscale housing development to see a different perspective of Useless Bay and Double Bluff.

Retracing my steps, I cut through Sunlight Shores at the top of the hill.  I was struck by the color here.

Then I took the gravel path down through the wetlands to get back to Sunlight Beach road. 

The red winged blackbirds were singing their lovely song. 

Back at the cabin, I checked out the beach, which I had all to myself. 

I did have some company in the lagoon: a flicker on an old piling,

my favorite bird, a belted kingfisher, 

and some dabbling ducks, green winged teal. 

It was a good walk.