We were blessed with a beautiful, warm and sunny day for our trip to Whidbey Island. Today's hike started at Bowman Bay. If you click on the photo below to enlarge it you will see the Olympic mountain range in the distance. I could have just sat and stared at that view all day.
17 of us carpooled from the Bellingham Senior Center to this glorious spot.
What some of us thought was a solid log to crawl over, others in our group found that it really was.....
"rotten" & easily fell apart.
We made our way back to the hwy via the trail, to Pass lake.
We crossed the road and made our way to the Pass Lake parking lot.
After walking along the Pass Lake trail for a short ways we came to the trail junction for the Ginnett trail, which we headed up for lunch. While we made our way up to the viewpoint, our fearless leader Pat told us the history of the area. The property was once owned by the Ginnett family, and they had donated their land to the State parks. One of the snippets I found interesting was that there was a forest fire that happened in 1909 and the Ginnett's hand planted trees to restore the forest.
We enjoyed a nice view of Pass lake while we ate.
I had never been on this particular trail before and I would really like to go back. The forest was really nice with Douglas fir, Cedar, Hemlock trees and a few Madrona's here and there. Ferns, Salal, Vinca,
Lady's Slipper
and even a few of these flowers identified by Helen as Dogtooth violets or Avalanche lilies.
As we hiked we were serenaded by birds singing here and there throughout the day.
We then finished up our hike by walking the rest of the Pass Lake loop.
As we strolled along at the finish of the hike, We were bathed in the warmth of the sun and the warmth of good times & good conversation.
I was especially happy today as I had a special friend ;-) join us today.
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| My sweetie pie |
Endomondo stats:
Total miles hiked - 6.6 miles
Minimum altitude - minus 6 feet
Maximum altitude - 461 feet
Total ascent - 762 feet
Total descent - 755 feet
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