Our first family dayhike at Ebey’s Landing on Whidbey Island this year, Sunday 21 February 2010
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Off we go along the edge of the world! Kristina takes the lead with our dog Jo sniffing in the grass uphill to her right. Talia’s in the middle with her playmate Anaise trotting along behind. Foto by me, the author, with a Nikon D40 DSLR.
In the weeks before our house burned down, our family, blended into different combinations, made two trips up to Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve and State Park. It’s a unique integration of national park, state park, and local town and county parks. Whidbey Island is the largest island by far in the State of Washington and the 40th largest within the United States of America. It’s a long, slender, and somewhat crooked extension of a cluster of archipelagos linked together in the Salish Sea. On this wintry trip with hints of spring are my then-now-ex-wife Kristina and I along with Talia, my stepdaughter I’ve help raise since her birth, and Anaise, one of Talia’s early childhood friends. Plus JoJo Jo Dog! We packed up snacks, bottles of water, extra clothes, and a first aid kit, piled into our minivan at our home in Edmonds, and headed north to the islands. The weather turned out “Fabulous! It’s fabulous, William!” to quote Kristina. The morning cold was pushed out by bright, blue skies without any clouds to behold. Just lots of golden sunshine and distant fog with the low, brown, lowland haze of urban air pollution.
