Day 19 San Juan Islands

Today we headed for Anacortes not knowing whether or not to take the ferry out to the San Juan islands. It had been raining all morning and it was cold. The ferry rates were not too bad, so we decided to go. One of the following pics show the 2 ferries where we had to switch ferries at Lopez island. Then we went on to San Juan island where we had lunch at the town of Friday Harbor, looking out over the harbor as shown in one of the pics. We met Marty on the second ferry, and he told us everything we needed to know about the San Juan islands. He also lives in the town of Friday Harbor. We wanted to go whale watching on the other side of San Juan island, but the place to watch was 10 miles on the other side of the island. This is the off season so the only way way to get there was taxi or rent a car, all too expensive. At 4:15 we caught the ferry back to our starting point. These ferries, the biggest one can haul 2000 persons and 200 cars. It was a great ride, very few people. The islands are very pretty, probably better if the sun was out, and not raining. Tonight we are camped in an RV park that is part of an Indian Casino. Haven't went gambling yet. Tomorrow we put the truck on another ferry and head across this body of water, on the way to Olympic National Park. This will be another area without internet access, so I don't think I will be able to post anything for several days.