San Juan Island @ MindSay 
After leaving San Juan Island, we spent two nights on Orcas Island at the Rosario Resort. Again, we had a room overlooking the water, but the view wasn't quite as extensive or beautiful as it was at the Friday Harbor House. Still beautiful, though...
One of the main attractions on Orcas Island is Moran State Park, which contains Mount Constitution. The mountain rises to over 2,000 feet and provides an extraordinary view. From the top, you are able to see Mt. Rainier, the Olympic Mountains, Canada and, of course, the surrounding islands. However, when we went up, it was a rainy morning, and the higher we went, the foggier it got...
On our way up the mountain, we stopped along the way to hike to a couple waterfalls. I think that the pictures I took of the waterfalls may be the best I got on the whole trip, so if you want to see them, you're going to have to wait because I'm going to give them an entry of their own. The whole area around the waterfalls was beautiful, though. Bright greens, rich red-browns...
Luckily for us, it began to clear up later the same day. So, we quick got in the car and drove up the mountain. We could immediately see that the view wouldn't be all white anymore...
We got to the top just in time for sunset. It wasn't the most spectacular sunset ever, but it wasn't bad.
The next day, we got in the car, drove back to the ferry dock, and sat in line to get on the ferry and go back to Seattle. While sitting there waiting, we spotted a tree that seemed to have half green leaves and half colored. It was the last picture I took before we left.
That's about it. I'm sure I left something out since I didn't put up all the pictures, but I covered the major things. I'll try to get the waterfall pictures up tomorrow :D
It's time for the third installment of the honeymoon in WA pictures. I already covered the town of Friday Harbor (where we stayed for three nights) and our whale watching tour. All that's left are a few of my favorites from the other random locations we visited on San Juan Island, and one more entry covering Orcas Island.
San Juan Island was the location of the last land dispute between the US and Britain. In the mid-1800s, the Americans had a camp on the southeastern tip of the island, while the British had a camp in the northwestern section of the island. Both camps are now parks offering camping and hiking. By the way, for some reason, Germany decided the island was going to ours (danke!)
The American Camp is filled with wonderful patriotic names like 4th of July Beach...
The tree growth on the southern sides of the islands is scarce because of sun and rain conditions. Some areas are quite barren looking.
The very tip of the island is called Cattle Point, and isn't park land. However, the only way to get to it is by going through the park.
I must say the English had a much more beautiful setting for their camp. Being located on the northwestern section of the island, it had considerably more trees. There were three oak trees in the middle of the camp that were huge. It's hard to tell how large they are in these pictures, but that little white building wasn't so little.
The size of the evergreens also amazed me. It wasn't that they were big around, but that they were so tall and straight.
We also visited a small town just north of the English Camp called Roche Harbor. Things were pretty slow while we were there, but in the summer, the harbor is packed with boats. Roche Harbor was once the location of a cement plant. It was ideal because of the large amounts of limestone that make up the island. They had large kilns (which I couldn't get good pictures of due to cars being parked right in front of them!) where they'd heat the limestone to get pure lime, a key component of cement. (As a civil engineer, this was really cool :))
There's a small Catholic church in Roche Harbor. It's the only privately owned Catholic church in the country.
Based on the cement-making history, a small state park south of English Camp is called Lime Kiln Point State Park. It's beautiful, and has an orca-watching site. Unfortunately, we didn't see any orcas there either. Now, I don't know if this is something usual for any of you to see, but we were pretty amazed by the size of these maple leaves. And, yes, that's the new hardwear on my finger.
There was a decent sunset while we were at the park, but nothing picture-worthy. It did cast a decent light on the lighthouse, though.
Next up: the final set of pictures from the honeymoon. I hope you guys are enjoying them so far :D