Day trip to Clark Island with friends

On a wonderfully sunny and warm April day this weekend I took some friends out for a trip to Clark Island. Most of them are not sailors and it was a novel experience for them to be on the salish sea in this way. It was dead calm, so we were reduced to motoring the two hours each way, but the scenery and wildlife make up for the noise.

The wild side of Lummi Island

The calm conditions allowed us to see quite a few birds, including long-tailed ducks, rhino auklets, pigeon G's, common murres, bald eagles, great blues, and numerous gull species. Harbor porpoises, harbor seals and a few sea lions represented the mammals.

There is nothing quite so great as messing about in boats, and this was a fine day for it.