{"id":7627,"date":"2019-09-24T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=7627"},"modified":"2019-09-24T15:52:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T22:52:24","slug":"ferrying-over-to-friday-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2019\/09\/24\/ferrying-over-to-friday-harbor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrying over to Friday Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Late Friday morning we headed over to Friday Harbor.\u00a0\u00a0 It seemed appropriate to do that on a Friday!\u00a0 It was to be one \"\"<\/a>of the few days that it was supposed to be sunny most of the day.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We walked onto the ferry for the 90-minute ride over thru the San Juan Islands.\u00a0 Along the way we went past Orcas Island and many others.\u00a0 Most of them have houses we could see from the ferry.\u00a0\u00a0 Lopez Island had lots of houses that could be seen from the ferry.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It was a quick 90 minutes and we seemed to get there really fast, probably because it was a “non- stop” ferry.\u00a0\u00a0 When we arrived, it was overcast and just\u00a0 after lunchtime so we headed out looking for a place to get something on a patio where Dusty could stay with us.<\/p>\n

Fairly \"\"<\/a>quickly we found a small Mexican restaurant just about 100 feet up the hill from the landing.\u00a0 They had a small patio sans a cover, so we lucked out and it didn’t rain on us even though it looked like it was going to do that any minute.\u00a0\u00a0 It was pretty good food, a lot better than expected being so far from the border.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It’s a nice little town and didn’t really seem like the tourist trap I expected.\u00a0 There were a few gift shops, \"\"<\/a>where I expected everything to be one of those. but it was very low key.\u00a0 We were only staying for a few hours and wandered the streets for a bit while Kathy perused the shops there were there.\u00a0 She did find a nice metal sign that may end up in the living room of the RV.<\/p>\n

Dusty and I spent a lot of time on park benches while she shopped and he had a lot of folks coming over to pet him and hear how cute he is.\u00a0\u00a0 It wasn’t long ’till we saw our ferry approaching the island and we headed over to get in line to board for the ride back to Fidalgo Island.<\/p>\n

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Along the way we did see a pod of Dall’s Porpoise <\/a> swimming beside us.\u00a0 They look like baby orcas with their black and white colors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Late Friday morning we headed over to Friday Harbor.\u00a0\u00a0 It seemed appropriate to do that on a Friday!\u00a0 It was to be one of the few days that it was supposed to be sunny most of the day.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We walked onto the ferry for the 90-minute ride over thru the San Juan Islands.\u00a0 Along the … <\/p>\n

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