A short but very sweet day. We were up early and headed out en masse for the ceremonial dip of the tires in the Pacific Ocean. Of course it was a disorganized mess once we got there but it was fun. We then retraced our route for about 5 miles and started peddling east. Part of our route took us on the Padilla Bay Shore Trail, a 2.25 mile trail build on a dike through an estuary of the Skagit River. Because Padilla bay is filled with sediment from the Skagit River, the bottom is so shallow that almost the whole bay is intertidal - it is flooded at high tide and when the tide goes out, the whole bay empties exposing miles of mud flats. This condition allows unusually large eelgrass meadows to grow, and the fauna that the eelgrass supports is able to thrive. We learned all about the ecology of the area at a great
interpretive center.
After that, we moseyed into
Sedro-Woolley via back roads that had virtually no traffic. We went into town for lunch and found examples of the local chainsaw art carving competition on every street corner. It was starting to drizzle so we high-tailed it to the hotel after lunch and enjoyed a relaxing afternoon.
No clue what tomorrow will hold because I'm living in the now.
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