Trial run with the travel trailer.....

Last Friday we headed out to one of the Fishing Club's properties near Vernonia Oregon. It was just Lorelei and I and we were shaking the bugs out of the new to us travel trailer.

Hooked up and ready to travel.

 

 Total drive time was about 2 hours. Vernonia is a sleepy logging town nestled in the coast range. We passed the logging road once and had to turn around. We found the locked gate and proceeded up the gravel road. Little did I know that Lorelei was getting nervous as she realized how isolated we were going to be camping.

 After a mile on the bumpy road we neared our destination. This property has nearly a thousand acres and five lakes and we were the only ones there!

We set up camp in a nice spot. We heard a very interesting SCREECHING sound in the middle of the night?

Then it was time to fish. I was trying out fly fishing for the first time and to my surprise I caught two trout!

The trailer worked great (except the fridge was not cold running on propane).

 Now this is roughing it.

Saturday morning we got out and walked around all of the lakes. There is some abandoned logging equipment along the road, so Lorelei hopped in for a test drive.

 Beautiful scenery. Lorelei took these next three.

Not to be out-done in the fish catching department, Lorelei got serious and pulled in this nice rainbow!

We had a great trip. A few bugs to work out with the trailer and we hope to be on the road again soon!

Glynn Jr.

Vacation, San Juan Islands!!

June 29th we headed out for a week at our favorite vacation spot. We loaded up and headed out. Corina rode with Lorelei, Cody and I. Adam and Pam drove their car from Portland up to Seattle and picked up Jon and we all met at the ferry landing in Anacortes Washington.

Leaving home.....

We hadn't seen Jon for a couple of months so big hugs were in order all around.

Once at the ferry landing you begin to switch to "Island Mode" which means if you're in a hurry to do anything, your in the wrong place!

We all went down on the beach and awaited our ferry.

Hey is that our ferry? Stop throwing rocks and let's go.....oh sorry, I forgot, Island Mode.....

 Boarding.....

 It takes about an hour to get to Orcas Island but the time goes by fast.....

The house we rented was awesome! Plenty of space, close to a launch ramp and a public dock.

On Monday we headed into East Sound which is the only real town on the island.

Jon, modeling the latest in island style.

 If you're new to the blog and don't know everyone, from LtoR Cody, Pam, Adam, Me, Jon and Corina. Lorelei is the photographer.

Monday we took the ferry over to San Juan island and visited Friday Harbor!

Waiting Pam and Adam so we can go eat.

 

 Popeye the famous one eyed Friday Harbor resident mascot. 

Tues., Wed., Thurs. were fishing days!

You can't keep any "rock fish" in the area we were fishing. Not sure why because we were catching them almost every cast. So Lorelei brought up this 5 or 6 pound rock fish that had been brought up too fast and his stomach hadn't decompressed. We had to throw him back but he was just floating on top of the water. We were all feeling bad when out of the corner of our eye, this bald eagle swoops down and not 10 yards from the boat scooped up the fish and carried it off to it's nest. About 20 minutes later it returned and perched in the tree above us awaiting his next free meal.

Lorelei snapped off a shot of him.

Corina with a nice one!

 Lorelei with one of the several sharks (dogfish) she caught.

On Wednesday after fishing and hiking at Moran State Park we stopped at Rosario Resort for dinner.

On Friday we drove (the kids rode their bikes) over to Deer Harbor and spent time walking the docks.

We had absolutely perfect weather. It was so nice having everyone together.

Below, the Ultimate, Ultimate Frisbee team. 

No one wanted to leave, but.....all good things come to an end. We are looking forward to our next trip!

That's about all for now.

Glynn Jr.