Today we had every intention of driving back to Anacortes and catching the ferry over to San Juan Island, but after waffling back and for I decided that spending over two hours of my day on a ferry was not anything I wanted to do. If we’d been going to see something cool like Boobies I would have done it, but after talking to the Info lady yesterday and asking her about the San Juan Islands we got the impression that they were very similar to Whidbey Island and so we gave them a miss.
Instead we took a drive north to Bellingham, the huge city just to the north of us. We took Hwy 11 to get there which took us along the Samish Bay coast from where we got to see the San Juan Islands without having to spend time puking on the ferry.

Mike: Becc, is a major land lubber, she doesn't like boats!!!!

San Juan Islands from Hwy 11

Our first stop in Bellingham was at its historic Fairhaven District which dates from the 1890’s but which has been fairly recently restored. We got parked and wandered around the streets which had one of a kind stores – there were hardly any chains in this part of town – and got talking to a nice local lady who owned a Welsh Terrier named Tucker. After visiting the farmer’s market and chatting to the sweet shop owner we went on our way into Bellingham proper. While the historic part of the city was very individual and interesting, the rest of Bellingham was like every other city we’ve visited so we didn’t hang around for long.

Fairhaven