Day 2 - American Camp, Lime Kiln and sock roasting
1 Coffee time! Can you see Dave's face in the lid?
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3 Hot chocolate for boys!
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5 Turkey bacon!
6 Why do the eggs have a butt, now?!?!?!
7 Our campsite.
8 Daddy working hard.
9 Dad on KP again!
10 Trails nearby.
11 A little walk around in Friday Harbor. Always so relaxing to walk around with with the boys. They are so peaceful and calm, such good conversationalists and window shoppers. :-?
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13 The ferry pulling in.
14 At a coffee shop. Sam doesn't miss a crumb.
15 At American Camp. This is a really interesting and beautiful place. The Americans and British were both claiming ownership of the island at the same time in the late 1800s. The Pig War finally erupted in 1859 over the shooting of a pig, disrupting the peaceful joint colonization. Ownership was resolved by a German arbiter in favor of the Americans.
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18 Expansive and beautiful place.
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24 For Uncle Tom!
25 A redoubt built for protection, by Brig Gen Henry Martyn Robert, of Robert's Rules (later).
26 The story...
27 All dug by hand! I know how hard that is having shoveled a few things myself.
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29 Where's Ben? Haven't seen him in a few minutes.
30 Ooooh...there he is!
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32 Seems like fun to climb.
33 I made it up. Climbing IS fun. I think I'm marginally hooked now.Bouldering especially.
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39 Might enjoy a little seat here for a bit!
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41 Nice wildflowers!
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44 At Lime Kiln point - nice lighthouse and sea glass searching.
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47 Just have to keep an eye on the tide, so we can get out.
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49 Ben's great find.
50 Sam's.
51 Ok, got the kids out the other side safely, by counting wave sets. I ran up instead of counting for another set because I wanted to be sure they were ok. Oh well. Wet feet never killed anyone.
52 Then it started to rain, so we drove north to Roche Harbor. Some say "Roach" but I'm opposed to that for obvious reasons Mom will know well. Others say "Roash" which I think is preferable.
53 Very pretty gardens!
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56 Theodore Roosevelt stayed at Hotel de Haro!
57 Windows slope - very historic building.
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59 Bocci pretty popular here!
60 STILL raining 3 hours later, so what could be more sensible than load up the boys with a massive ice cream cone before piling in the tent for the evening?
61 Same sunset view, day 2.
62 Well, just sprinkling so might as well have a fire and dry out my socks.
63 It really works!
64 However, Ben said "Mom you're causing stinky sock precipitation from your evaporation!!" I guess he imagined the evaporation from my socks was causing a rain cloud right overhead and the drops to fall on us!
65 They dried out and got nice and leathery on the bottoms.
66 I think the beer choice caused the rain!
67 Ah yes. Warm feet.
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69 Boys doing some kind of ninja boxing routine before bed. Another not-so-wise plan, but why be all uptight while camping, right?
