Lewis & Clark Trip Day 33: Bellingham and North Cascades National Park (6/9/2021)

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Chuckanut Drive, known for trees overhanging the road, ...

... for the view of Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands ...

... and for oysters; note the rows of oyster beds

Paper in its original form beats rock (KSS)

Equisetum telmateia braunii/Great Horsetail

Polystichum munitum/Western Sword fern (KSS)

~On 6/4/1999, Ada & Bert S visited Fairhaven, WA.~

Fairhaven Park, former Rose garden gate

Although the former rose garden is now a community garden,
there are still some roses

1999: Bert at the Fairhaven Park rose garden

Victorian building in Fairhaven

Fairhaven Amtrak Train Station (1930s,
as the Pacific American Fisheries Headquarters)

Paulownia tomentosa/Empress Tree (1909)
is one of the oldest of its kind in the country

Bellingham/Fairhaven Cruise Terminal (1986-1989)

1999: Bellingham Cruise Terminal

Alaska State Marine Highway ferry, the Matanuska (1963)

The MV Matanuska is the same ferry boat we took from Sitka, AK to Prince Rupert, BC on 7/16-17/2017.

View from the cruise terminal (KSS)

Seabird (1997, by Robert W Jepperson) (KSS)

Fairhaven's former Knights of Pythias Hall
and Masonic Hall (1891, in
Richardsonian Romanesque style)

We were confused by the Drizzle Tasting Room for olive oils and vinegars, and did not realize you should go through the "Drizzle," then downstairs to the Colophon Café, or go to the back door. It was closed on Wednesdays anyway.

Sehome Arboretum in Bellingham has the
typical ferns growing under a mixed forest of
cedar, hemlock, Douglas fir, maple and alder

Sehome Arboretum observation tower (1982)

View of Bellingham from the observation tower

~On 6/5/1999, Ada & Bert attended the high school graduation of grandson, Ryan, at Sehome High School.~

Sehome High School (1966, was rebuilt in 2019!)

Former Bellingham City Hall (1892, for the
town of New Whatcom, later incorporated into
Bellingham) is now part of the Whatcom Museum

Tocco (1983, by Michael Jacobsen) (KSS)

Heron (1977, by Philip McCracken)

I could not find the Salmon Center Path or
the Salmon Art Trail behind the old City Hall

Old Whatcom County Courthouse (1858)

~On 6/4/1999, Ada & Bert S visited Whatcom Falls.~

WPA Stone Bridge (1939-1940) at Whatcom Falls Park

Whatcom Falls

1999: Whatcom Falls

1999: Whatcom Falls (much more water then!)

Downstream from Whatcom Falls (KSS)

Kent is dwarfed by the conifers
in Whatcom Falls Park

Whirlpool Falls

Former fish hatchery at Whatcom Falls Park

Derby Pond was once for fishing for
children under 14 years of age

Farther out from Bellingham is
Glen Echo Gardens, which was closed;
the website and roadside signs
have not been updated...

From WA-542 highway, we thought we had a view
of Mount Baker crowned with clouds, but these
are the Twin Sisters of Washington

Marblemount, WA: Wildwood Chapel (1977)
has pews for eight people

Newhalem, WA: Temple of Power (2002, by Don Corson)
uses recycled electrical bushings

Aquilegia sp/Columbine

Life-size Chinook Redd nest (2001, by Tom Jay)

One of two tunnels on the North Cascades Highway,
taking us through North Cascades National Park

Gorge Creek Falls

Diablo Lake is a glacier-fed (note its color) reservoir
created by Diablo Dam (1927-1930)

The log boom is meant to keep debris
from incoming streams from clogging the dams downriver

Strong winds re-shape the trees;, beyond are Snowfield Peak,
Colonial Peak, and Pyramid Peak

The highway was fully cleared on 5/5/2021

Snow above and below the tree-line in
North Cascades National Park

Lake Chelan is the third deepest lake in the country
and the 26th deepest in the world, with the
bottom at 118 m/388' below sea level

Next: Lewis & Clark Trip Day 34.