Happy Birthday America! What better way to celebrate than a trip to the top of Mount Constitution on Orcas Island. We spent three days exploring and hiking around Orcas Island for the fourth of July weekend. We booked a lovely little place using AirBNB called Harper House. It turned out to be a great location for us to call home for a few days. We completed a number of hikes while on the island, including a 0.7 mile waterfall hike, a 4.0 mile hike around Mountain Lake, a 1.2 mile hike through limestone quarry along Judd Cove, a 1.8 mile hike to the shoreline at Obstruction Pass, not to mention walking all over beautiful downtown Eastsound. Our stay included a nice dinner out at West Sound Café, time around Cascade Lake in Moran State Park, and wandering through the Farmers Market. We also visited a small church built in the 1880's and were 4 of 12 attending the Sunday afternoon Lutheran church service. The kids loved wandering along the beach, looking for crabs, seashells, and anemones. We woke up to an unusual yellow sky on Sunday morning, which turned out to be smoke cover from the massive wildfires burning in British Columbia.
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Luke - Jessica - Claire - Levi on top of Mt. Constitution on July 4th, Mount Baker in the background.
Mt. Constitution and Mountain Lake
Mountain Lake from the trail.
Levi and Claire drumming on a hollow log.
And a lovely hiker she is...
Jessica and the kids sharing a laugh near Mountain Lake.
View of an Island in the East Sound.
Mount Baker from the observation tower on the top of Mt. Constitution.
The Harper House, a very nice place to relax and call home base.
Arriving at Obstruction Pass water front.
Obstruction Pass Beach.
Obstruction Pass
Kids goofin near the beach.
Looking out over the Salish Sea from the Obstruction Pass trail.
One of the many picturesque farms all over the island.
 
Claire - Jessica - Levi
Luke - Levi - Claire in front of an old growth tree
   
Playing along the beach.
Searching for crabs; flipping over rocks.
Can't keep out of the water.
Family Photo
Salish Sea Selfie
Luke and Jessica in front of the Moran Mansion at the Rosario Resort,
the location of our honeymoon 10 years ago this month.
Happy, happy, happy.
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