{"id":437,"date":"2016-03-12T21:46:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T21:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mika.im\/note\/?p=437"},"modified":"2018-05-04T03:17:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T03:17:01","slug":"in-search-of-orcas-san-juan-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"WA: San Juan Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Friday Harbor for a month again this February. We took our touring bikes there &#8211; we took a train from Seattle King Street Station to Mt. Vernon and biked to Anacortes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/8126299\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-438\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mika.im\/note\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screenshot-from-2016-03-12-13-14-12.png\" alt=\"Mt Vernon to Anacortes\" width=\"879\" height=\"550\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-438\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, we biked here when the tulips were out. No tulip around this time of the year but I still had a great time since it&#8217;s a very flat ride.<\/p>\n<p>On San Juan Island, there are several loops you can do:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mika.im\/note\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screenshot-from-2016-03-12-13-19-33.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-439\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mika.im\/note\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screenshot-from-2016-03-12-13-19-33.png\" alt=\"San Juan Island\" width=\"550\" height=\"452\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-439\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Islands around here are a little hilly. I become very sedentary when I&#8217;m in Friday Harbor but Mako and Aaron made sure that we either biked or hiked every day or two. It was a good thing to do in preparation for our bike tour in Big Sur. Most of the time, we rode about 10-22 miles\/500-1600ft climbing. <\/p>\n<p>Going to Lime Kiln is the hilliest route but a little before getting to the park, there are two cute little libraries made out of old concrete mixer tanks. The tanks are decorated as a strawberry and a pineapple. The artist who made these huts keep the fire stoves going from Friday afternoon to Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>We also hiked on UW&#8217;s Friday Harbor campus often. It&#8217;s a nice route to Point Caution, where we saw seals. <\/p>\n<p>We were hoping to catch sight of orcas &#8211; other people kept saying they saw some near the island &#8211; but alas, no orcas this time. We may come back in the summer when they are around more often!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Friday Harbor for a month again this February. We took our touring bikes there &#8211; we took a train from Seattle King Street Station to Mt. Vernon and biked to Anacortes: Last year, we biked here when the tulips were out. No tulip around this time of the year but I still&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/?p=437\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bike","category-hike","tag-wa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/note\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}