Our Excursion: 20230508: NW Washington Trip – Day 5
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Date of our excursion: 2023-05-08
Location: Bellingham, Washington
Our Planned Itinerary:Planned Itinerary: Get up. Pack. Drive around area. Maybe walk. Weather Forecast: Partly Sunny. Low to mid 50s. Actual Itinerary: Ignore trains and garbage trucks. Sleep in. Pack. Stroll down South Bay Trail. Drive Chuckanut Drive. Rope climb down a cliff to the bay. Fly out. Total Miles Traversed: 1.97 | |
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We hit some cool places.
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Continents: North America |
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This is a sad day as it is our last day in Bellingham, for this trip at least. We definitely want to come back to revisit some of our excursions and to check out some other activities we didn’t have time to visit.
Our plane flight isn’t until later this afternoon so we have a few hours to shove in a few more activities. First up: another walk on the South Bay Trail. It’s sunny this morning and the bay looks beautiful.
Next up: a nice drive down Chuckanut Drive, a scenic byway – claimed to be the most beautiful drive ever. We didn’t make it all the way down the drive so we can’t dispute or agree with that claim. We parked at a pulloff to get a better view of the bay. Here we found the most crazy little hike! Past the stone wall, around a corner, there is a trail that goes almost straight down the cliff. Along the cliff are a series of ropes, climbing ropes and not barrier ropes. Do we try this adventure? Of course! Well, it’s loads of fun and we choose not to think about climbing back up the ropes. At the bottom of the hill, we again have to cross train tracks and we get to the bay. We sit around for a bit and enjoy the scenery then head back up. We exercise our arm muscles by dragging ourselves up the cliff using the ropes. That was a fun and unexpected adventure.
Now it is time to head to the airport. Sad day; but we are hopeful we will be back. Soon!