San Juan Weekend, Part 3

 We're coming back around to another weekend, but the visions of our island weekend keep floating through my head, prolonging the pleasure.

On Sunday we took the around the island tour. In preparation I had found a little map of the highlights. The introduction read:

San Juan Island is the most diverse island in the county. Explore quiet valley roads, find a beach for yourself, visit one of the popular resorts, or enjoy Friday Harbor's art galleries, boutiques, museums and water view restaurants.

We did all of those things. It did take us two days. 

In the interior valleys of the southern part of the island we found farms and cows and ponds and Pelindaba Lavender Farm. The lavender wasn't in bloom yet but the setting was lovely and the shop was full of lavender delights. We bought a few.

Then we were back on the Westside Highway, where we had watched the sunset the night before and our first stop was Lime Kiln Point State Park.

Falling isn't funny, but I thought this sign was. 

I know they are hard to see, but this rock was covered with colorful succulents. 

Lime Kiln Point Light House is a well known whale watching spot, but nobody was home this day and we heard the whales were up north in the Canadian waters. 

Traveling north, our next stop was San Juan County Park, where we did find a beach all for ourselves. 

Further north we came to English Camp, San Juan Island National Historical Park, where the British were encamped during the "Pig War" troubles of the years before and after 1859. 

You might notice that I like trees . There were some wonderful old trees and remnants of trees here.

We did drive into Snug Harbor just to check it out and then on to the northwest tip of the island at Roche Harbor. Both of these places are boating resorts with lots of big fancy boats. We planned our day around having lunch at Roche Harbor, not at the fancy hotel, but at the Lime Kiln Cafe out on the docks.

After a leisurely lunch we completed our drive around the island and back to Friday Harbor. No highlights there and thankfully no more pictures for this day. After we got back we made plans to meet up with Jake at his place to watch a Sounders soccer match on TV. We ate take out pizza and urged our lads on, but alas, they lost. It was a very good day anyway.