7/18/2022 Northwest Washington and the COW can Float

For the last week we have been exploring Northwest Washington along the Peugeot Sound based out of Oak Harbor WA. While here we spent time exploring city of Oak Harbor, Oak Harbor State Park, and jumped on & off ferries to the San Juan Islands.  Pictures below.

Oak Harbor borders a Navy Air Base where they practice flying fighter jets and larger troop transport jets.  I was lucky enough to snap a great photo with my cell phone of a troop transport jet flying below the clouds.  Looks like the pilot is shooting for an opening to the sun.

Last, instead of driving 136 miles (probably 4 hours in the COW)  through the Seattle Washington traffic, we decided to take the leap and put the COW on a Ferry.  Actually with Diesel Prices at $6/gallon and getting 8 miles to the gallon it made logical sense.  The Ferry ride cost $90 for both Sandy & I, COW, and the Toad.  The challenge was driving the COW onto the ferry.  It is a tight squeeze as it goes in along side the Semi’s (maybe12” between us).  In addition we opted to disconnect the Toad (as it was cheaper) so Sandy drove the Toad on at a different time than I driving the COW (which means I lost my copilot to watch the passenger side.  All in all it was a good experience.  One challenge that we didn’t think of early on was that at the end of the ferry ride we would depart the ferry at different times so we needed to meet up at a common point to reconnect the Toad to the COW.  Thankfully Sandy has all kind of Facebook Travel contacts.  She asked for some recommendations and sure enough we had someone online (that has done it before) give us an exact location to reconnect.