Skagit Valley Tulip bike ride

Sunday is our (my husband and my) long activity day, we decided to check out the Tulips in Skagit County. The Skagit Tulip Festival is April 1 - 30, we wanted to see how far along the Tulips were in bloom. We began our trek from the north end of The Padilla Bay Shore trail.

It was overcast most of the day with a little wind and drizzle after lunch, but pretty nice for biking.

Some of the Daffodil fields are getting past their prime, but there were enough that were in full bloom that it was pretty spectacular. 

Click on the panorama photo below to expand it.

We rode past RoozenGaarde's and Tulip Town, but didn't go into their display gardens on this trip.

There was a small flock of Trumpeter Swans just beyond this red Tulip field. They don't show up in the two photos below unless you really enlarge the pictures.

We rode to LaConner for lunch, it was nice to sit on a bench along the channel while we ate.

I managed to get a picture of my husband below the banner on the lightpole ;-) hee hee.

If we would have paid to park near the field of Tulips in the photo below, I could have gotten a better picture of the many colors of this large field. Since we were on our bikes we didn't want to pay to park. The picture was taken from the shoulder of the road, it really doesn't do it justice. It was a very large and colorful field. Not all of the Tulip fields were in bloom yesterday, so maybe another trip down for us.

As we were heading back, wave after wave of Snow Geese flew overhead. With the cloudy sky it may be hard to see them in the photo below, it you click to enlarge it that my help you find them in the clouds. 

I got one more picture of a field of sunshine, before we headed to our car.

We went a total of 30 miles on our bikes, a most EXCELLENT way to see the fields of Skagit County.

Who needs the sun when you can see it shining fully from a large field of Daffodils :-)