The San Juan Islands look to be Washington state's answer to the Channel Islands, and Friday Harbour is St Helier. That's where we are tonight, having taken a ferry westwards from Anacortes, up the coast from Seattle. Much further West and we'd be in Canada (the ferry's next stop, and the view from the National Park hill apparently, is Sidney on Vancouver Island).
As well as being a very pretty place, the primary reason to come here is tomorrow afternoon's orca sighting trip (fingers crossed for whales, and weather - it's poured here again today). Note the little leaping chaps on the welcome sign at the port.
Fact of the day for you : we passed through the marvellously-named Lower Skagit River Valley (v flat landscape - populated mainly by 2nd and 3rd generation Dutch farmers), which apparently produces 100% of the US's Brussels sprouts and parsnips (can that really be right?! Your average Yank may not eat as many sprouts as I do, granted, but that's still a heck of a lot of sprouts out of one valley.)
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