Langley is a quaint seaside village on Whidbey Island, located on the southeast, overlooking Saratoga Passage. Jocob Anthes was hired to explore Whidbey Island. In 1881 Anthes purchased 120 acres and built a log house, cleared several acres of land and grew vegetables and potatoes. In 1886 he filed a homestead on 160 acres and […]
Coupeville is a town on Whidbey Island, founded in 1852 by Captain Thomas Coupe. The town continues to preserve original pioneer homes.
Originally named “Port Townshend” by Captain George Vancouver for his friend the Marquis of Townshend in 1792. The port was considered a safe harbor and the largest on the west coast thanks to the railroads who brought in goods and lumber for shipping overseas, but in the early 1890’s the town experiencing a economic decline […]
Battery Kinzie, named after a US Civil War Brigadier General David Hunter Kinzie, was built in Puget Sound in 1908. The Battery had two 12″ disappearing carriage guns at the post from 1910 to 1944, to be used to protect the entrance of Admiralty inlet. Its beach side position allowed it to cover the waterway […]
Olympic National Park is a great place to explore. The park has four regions; Pacific coastline, glaciated mountains, temperate rainforest and forest. It was in the rainforest that we discovered the most unusual fungi growing on trees. Shelf fungi Orange shelf fungus
Ruby Beach is a part of the coastal section of Olympic National Park, known for the sea stacks and driftwood. The beach is called ruby beach for the ruby like crystals in the sand.
The Quinault Rain Forest is part of the Olympic National Park filled with Western Red Cedar, Sitka Spruce, Western Hemlock, Alaskan Cedar, Mountain Hemlock and Douglas Firs.