After a week now on Whidbey Island we are really settling in. We’ve had time to do most of the home improvement stuff we have ignored for the last six months and yet explore a bit. It’s also been a relief with the price of gas … never thought I’d say that, but after the high price for the Canadian stuff a measly 2.79 here is chicken feed.

No, this isn't an ad for Fed Ex ... didn't even see em til I looked at the pictures.


This is Deception Pass, about 2 miles north of our RV park (to the left is Whidbey and to the right is Fidalgo Island) and a spectacular cut through the rocks and was named by Captain Vancouver in the 1800’s because it wasn’t the easy passage to an inland waterway that he thought. This island was named after his navigator, Whidbey, who was able finally able to navigate through the dangerous pass and its rough currents.