After restocking at Friday Harbor we cast off our lines and headed out towards Stuart Island.
We caught a mooring ball in Reid Harbor once we finished our hike and made it to Stuart Island. There’s a small community of people who live on Stuart. Apparently there’s no electricity to the island so everyone’s pretty self sufficient. There’s a small schoolhouse and teaching museum on the island so we decided to take the little hike out to see that since Kristin is a teacher and she geeked out on this one. Unfortunately we picked the one day they chose to repaint the entire school. :/
Stuart Island is just gorgeous. Beautiful pictures, Ashley. Watch out for the cactus (I didn’t know cactus grew in the Puget Sound area)! Your last photo shows a “Ranger Tug” which are manufactured in Seattle. They’re cool little boats.
FYI, that prehistoric green plant in the photo titled “Detail of neat little plant that I don’t know the name of” is called a Horsetail.
Also, how do you always find all those USGS survey markers? I NEVER see them unless I trip over one, which is impossible to do because of their rounded shape. So that means I NEVER see them, period.