Spent much of this glorious Saturday in Mukilteo at the beach on Puget Sound, where we timed our arrival to low tide because we'd read that there were excellent tide pools, and we were not disappointed! There were many, many anemones and starfish, including some enormous ones under rocks and clinging to the pier pilings, as well as crabs, tiny shrimp, little sculpin fish, and a mollusk called a mossy chiton that I'd never heard of before I saw them on beach signs and look so much like trilobites that at first I thought I'd discovered a live one.
We visited the lighthouse where George Vancouver came ashore, which now houses history displays on the growth of Mukilteo as well as the lightkeepers, and we walked to the restaurants to get soft serve ice cream, because is it even a beach day without that? We had great views from the beach of Mount Baker, the Cascade Range, and the Olympic Mountains, and on the dock where we wandered before sitting down to picnic, we saw harbor seals trying to snatch the flounder being caught by the people fishing. We also watched the Whidbey Island ferries.
On the way back to Redmond, we stopped at Safeway for more birdseed, cat food, and other necessities, saw the terrible end of the terrible Mariners loss to the Rangers, and walked out on the dock to see our local herons and coots. We finally met the neighbors who own the boat that flies both a pirate flag and a pride flag, and to my astonishment they have never seen Our Flag Means Death! Now we're watching the end of the not-very-well-scripted Citadel, though I suspect no one is watching for the dialogue or the logic of the plot!
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