2019-05 KORS (Eastsound,WA)

in Destinations May 27, 2019

Spring showers bring May flying. Memorial Day weekend has arrived and the spring showers have been hovering around. They clear up just in time for Memorial Day. Its a Blue bird day and we have a friend in town so we must go flying.

We decided to go to the San Juan Islands, specifically Orcas Island. The East Sound Airport is located in the middle of the island and is walking distance from the small town. The airport has a notorious antique style Mercedes and on airport camping.

We last visited the Eastsound Airport in 2014, you can read that post here.

That was only our 3rd trip in the plane, now were up to more than 80 adventures. We see things different then we did then. We look for safe walking paths for the kids before we go and decided our hiking pack was the best for the stroll to the town.

The flight over was magical. Every time we take some one up you get the feeling of joy and excitement all over again. Our friend hasn’t been to the San Juans and it’s fun to show her around.

We land at the airport and the transient parking is packed. We waited for a spot, but there was plenty of grass parking on the south side or grass parking by the campers mid-field. Upon exiting the airport we walked along Mt. Baker Rd to N Beach road for lunch. The roads had nice wide gravel sidewalks, not the easiest for The Little Dude on the scooter though.

We settled on the Madrona Bar and Grill for lunch. Once inside it felt so familiar. It was the same place we had chosen to eat 5 years ago. Our lunch took a little longer than Plane Girl had patience for so we went outside to literally smell the roses and enjoy the sound.

After lunch we strolled along main street: walked the outdoor labyrinth at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, enjoyed tide pooling by the water, then ice cream at the Clever cow creamery.

By the time we walked back to the airport 3 hours had disappeared – we were sure on island time! Plane Girl took a snooze in the hiking pack on the way back to the plane. We tankered fuel in so all we needed was to pre-flight and head back.

We had such a successful fly-out camping trip we want to do it again and Eastsound is on the list. We ran out of time to visit some shops but when we go back and camp we want to visit: