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Our first stop
was the Padilla
Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. To get to the beach,
you walk through a tunnel under the road then out onto a sort of
balcony.
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Then you climb
down, down, down this spiral staircase, no easy feat for someone
who is afraid of heights! I made it though, and was sorry to see
that I had not looked first. The tide was in and there was very
little beach.
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On the way
back we discovered a magnificent Bald Eagle watching us.
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I went into
the Information Center to ask if they could guide us to a colony
of herons we'd heard about, somewhere near Padilla Bay.
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There's a
lot to look at in the museum, but we weren't going to waste that
sunshine!
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We found the
heronry, unfortunately fairly inaccessible, so on we drove. Oh it
was lovely to be out beside the water, looking at islands and beach.
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Across the
bay was the beautiful Mount Baker, peeping over the hills.
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Behind us
was the Anacortes Oil Refinery.
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The cheerful
'con-coreee' of Red-winged Blackbirds made me smile.
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