Our Dragonfly visitor.

M spotted this off our balcony just moments ago and snapped this shot.  She did get pretty close to it and did not fly away.  It just sat there perched on a vertical post.  Just so you know that angle M took the shot aiming downward towards the ground.  Pretty awesome shot.

Here are the most recent pictures of our baby boy!  He looks like his big brother already.

Friday Harbor Continued.......

Here we are coming back from a fabulous whale watching trip, which I'll be posting once I get the pictures on the computer.  One of the cool things about this boat we were on was that it's biodiesel.  SO instead of smelling horrid exhaust it smelled like french fries and popcorn.
M took this cool shot from the side of the boat as we headed south from Point Roberts.
Adrian was very well behaved and was the center of attention for the crew and the other passengers on the boat.  During the trip out and the trip back to Friday Harbor, Adrian spent in the cabin playing with puzzles, coloring books, and read books too.
This was taken on the ferry on the trip back to Anacortes.  We where all tired and had a very good, and enjoyable vacation with my parents.
This was taken the day before we left Friday Harbor from the inside of the van my parents had rented for our trip.  I thought it was a pretty cool shot.

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This and the picture below where from the beach west of the American Camp.

Here we all are headed back up from the beach.  Dad say Hi! 
Here we are later on that day at the English camp at the north end of the island.  Dad and Adrian went ahead to examine one of the existing builds from back then.
The English camp was a little bit smaller than the American camp but this was set up in an inlet where the Americans where all out in the open.  Here M, Adrian and my Mom took a sit down before the climb back up a steep hill to the van.

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Here is M, Adrian, and my Dad watching the first of two ferries coming in while we waited for dinner.  We ate at an organic vegetarian Mediterranean restaurant  that the woman at the tourist center recommended.  It was awesome!  Great food!
After dinner we took a short drive and came across a beach and watched the lovely sunset.
Before the Civil War the British and Americans had camps on separate ends of San Juan Island.  The first one we visited was the American Camp on the southern end of San Juan.  One person in-particular that served here was George Pickett who came here after building Fort Bellingham.  George Pickett was later made infamous for his ill fated charge on the Union camp during the battle of Gettysburg.
Adrian ran ahead to the map and was pointing out all the things that were on it.  At the trail head M grabbed a walking tour guide and had a blast waling through where the American encampment was at one point.
Here Adrian was leading my Mom back up the trail.  It was quite cute. 

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There where all these little orange flowers all over the place.
Here we're scoping out the town shortly after we parked the van, trying to get our bearings.
Mom and Dad enjoying the gorgeous weather after finishing out mid-day treat.
The Thinking Man
This is the view from where we were sitting as a ferry comes into the dock.  Just out to the shot to the right was an ice cream shop that we stopped at a few times while we where there.

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The following pictures where taken at the Whale Museum in Friday Harbor.  This is a skull of an orca, this particular one was between 3 and 4 feet long.  You can see how big it's teeth are.
This is full shot of the same orca from above and it was a little bigger than 20 feet long.
This is a skeleton of a gray whale which was about as big as the orca next to it.  These pictures don't really show how big they actually are. 
Look in the bottom right corner of this picture there is the rarely seen M outside her natural habitat.  Totally oblivious to the flying orca above her.
Here are the skeletons of a Human and a Dolphin.  What's cool is when you get down to it there's not much difference between us and them.

Friday Harbor

This is a shot of my Dad on the headed out to Friday Harbor from Anacortes. 
This was taken by a nice man who was in two cars in front of us.  The ferry was pretty full and the trip took about a an hour and a half.
M and Adrian braved the quite cool and very windy top deck right after we left.  A few weeks before we left Adrian was scared of being on the ferry, but was the one that took us out on the deck.
Here Adrian is pointing out the islands as they go by.  He's holding two maps of Friday Harbor one he kept in the van we had and the other he carried around with him.  He even found the post office for us so we could send our postcards. 
M, my Mom, and Adrian have a sit down after the ferry ride.