Showing posts with label Whidbey Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Whidbey Island. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

A day at the beach

Last Friday was such a beautiful day and the boys had a half day at school so I decided to pull them out early from school and take them to the beach up at Whidbey Island.  We don't get very many really nice days here in the Spring so I had to take advantage!!  Also, my mom was up at my Grandmas beach house working so we had somewhere to hang out.
Luke, me and my Mom mostly hung out on the deck while the older boys played on the beach.
The tide was out so the boys had fun exploring the tide pools and digging in the sand for treasures!  As we were sitting on the deck we saw a couple of bald eagles fly overhead then they landed on the sand not to far from us. There was one adult bald eagle and then one yearling eagle. It was neat to see them fly so gracefully through the air and to see how big they really are, their wing span is amazing!
It was a wonderful day at the beach and the boys had so much fun! Needless to say they all slept really well that night :)

A beautiful bald eagle

A bald eagle hanging out on a flag pole of a bald eagle!!

A yearling bald eagle. He will soon get his adult feathers.

Luke hangin' out with me on the deck!

Grant and Dallin digging for treasures!

Calvin heading out to the sand!

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Ebeys Landing - Whidbey Island

Last weekend while up on Whidbey Island we decided to go on a hike to Ebey's Landing. It's a beautiful hike and one that we have hesitated taking the boys on until they were a little older because you basically are hiking on the side of a steep large hill and parts of the trail are fairly narrow and there is no guard rail to protect you. My mom had Dallin for the morning so we decide to go for it seeing as Ryan and I would each have one child to "man", as Luke rides on Ryan's back on the pack. It was a beautiful day, sunny, warm and just the perfect breeze to keep you cool.....what more could you ask for! The hike round trip is about 4.5 miles, half hiking on the hillside and then onto the beach. We made it in just under 2 hours. Very relaxing and beautiful. The boys were champs too!!

View from one of the peaks up top.

The boys, minus Dallin.

Driftwood down on the beach, perfect to make forts with!!

Hiking through the tall beach grass

The boys driftwood fort they built of the beach house later that afternoon!

Cal