Puget Sound

We left Jasper NP on Labor Day and made our way southwest, crossing into the US on Wednesday, September 7. Our first stop was in a Costco in Bremerton Washington, before heading off to Whidbey Island. Whidbey is one of the Islands in Puget sound that you can drive onto. We stayed at Fort Ebey State Park on the island. Fort Ebey is one of four forts built around 1900, to guard the entrance to the shipping lanes going to the Seattle area. By WW2 they were obsolete and today they are all state parks. The town of Coupeville is on the south side of Penn Cove, on the east side of Whidbey Island. They commercially grow mussels in Penn Cove. We discovered Coupeville and Penn Cove mussels in 1999, on a prior camping trip. I have sampled mussels all over the country, in Europe, Australia and New Zealand and think Penn Cove mussels are the best! By the weekend, we had to leave the Fort Ebey SP as it was booked up. We took the ferry across to Fort Townsend on the Olympic peninsula and went to Dungeness spit campground, which is a county park east of Port Angeles.

The first photo shows the view of the Straits of Juan De Fuca from the bluff behind our campsite. Across the straits is Vancouver Island, Canada.

The second photo shows the Dungeness Spit with a tanker heading west in the straits.