Lopez Island (Day 2)

I slept in today so we didn't get all that much accomplished really, but this vacation is supposed to be relaxing so that's okay.  After waking I had some cereal, straightened my hair, did the sudoku in the weekly paper that we were given when we checked in and failed miserably at the crossword puzzle.  I really just don't think my mind works the way cross word puzzles are made.

After finally getting ready for the day we went and parked in the library parking lot (they have free WiFi 24/7) and I watched the noon church service online.  I love that they have live services online!  We then headed back to the cabin for PB&J sandwichs for lunch.

After lunch we finally headed out for our first real adventure of the day, deciding to go to the furthest away place first.  So we headed out to the Watmough perserve.  We wandered the little beach and took the smaller north trail back to the parking lot to find a cache on the way.  We enjoyed listening to the hummingbirds buzz around in the roses, the red wing blackbirds in the cat tails and saw a few chipmunks scurrying around.  Found the cache, and some animal bones not to far from there, looked like part of a deer probably.  There was also a neat cave type thing made out of rocks.  We took lots of pictures.  I then realized that the other cache in this park meant going back towards the beach so we headed down the awesome tunnel like trail again.

We followed the little trail to the second cache, took lots of pictures.  It was so beautiful out there.  We went a little ways past the cache and found a tiny little beach with tide pools on the rocks.  I saw tons of hermet crabs, a tiny fish, chiton and even a few sea anenomes.  Then it was back to the car and on to the next vista.

Colville point is a very small little land area with a great view.  I hear when the weather is good you can see the Olympic mountains, to bad it was overcast.  But it was still so beautiful!  I loved sitting there listening to the waves crass on the rocks and the birds singing.  The cache here was located by a really awesome tree, hopefully one fo my pictures turns out.

Next we went to check out Blackie Brady Park, it was listed on the beach combers guide as a favorite (and there was a cache there, surprise).  This was probably my least favorite beach we have been to so far, the view out was pretty much across the little bay at some very nice houses.  We did manage to find a few very nice green glass pieces though.  And we beach combed for a little while we were able to watch a hummingbird chase a king fisher, that was quite amusing to see.

We were both pretty tired and hungry by the time we left that beach so we headed back to the cabin and had burritos for dinner.  Richard slept and I listened to classical music, read my bible chapters for the day and more of Breaking Dawn and then headed to bed for the night.