Day 7 - Hiking Mt. Constitution and Later Sailing Fun

We started early today. We were excited to pick up Joshua, Jackie and Ryker from the ferry about 8:30 am to spend the day with them. After picking them up we drove straight to Moran State Park to hike parts of Mt. Constitution. We planned a couple of hikes that were not difficult but that we were still able to see what we wanted too. Ryker is 5 and we wanted him to enjoy it. Moran State park has many different hiking trails that arrive at the same destinations. It just depends on where you park and what trail heads you take to get to where you want to go. We decided to take a short hike to 75 foot Cascade Falls. It was about a 1 mile round trip hike.  The trails are well groomed and the area is pretty. Depending on what time of year you go you can ride bikes on some of the hiking trails.

Larry's fashion sense taking over again.

75 foot water fall we hiked too.

We were so happy to have Joshua, Jackie and Ryker join us.

We got photo bombed!

We then drove up to Little Summit trail head to park the car and hike up to the Tower on the top of Mt. Constitution.
A view along the way.

The steeper part of the trail was below us so this was a good hike for Ryker. He was such a good little hiker.

It was more of a gradual incline from Little Summit trail. The hike was about 4 ½ miles round trip. We hiked among lots of huge pine trees and came to edges where the view of the islands and bays were spectacular.

I even found fairy houses in the forest.

The top view from the top of this tower was amazing. We could see 360 degrees all around us to the various islands with just a few trees in the way.  

The day isn’t over yet! We’ve never went sailing before and we wanted to try it so we scheduled a sailing for 3 1/2 hours. We hiked down to get lunch and get ready to go sailing. We arrived right on time for our adventure. This was a first for all five of us.
We boarded this beautiful sailboat.

Larry got to help put up the sail,

Ryker and Joshua got to help steer the sailboat.

Jackie and I got to enjoy the ride.

We couldn't pass up some couple shots. It was beautiful to spend this time on the water with some of the people we love.

When the motor was off and the wind in the sails were the only thing moving us it was magical. The rocking movement of the water, no noise and gliding along watching the sunset with some of the people I love is a memory I will keep for a long time.

All vacations must come to an end. We need to help tie off the boat and then...

...the day was coming to a close and not too much later we had to take Joshua, Jackie and Ryker to catch the ferry back to the Anacortes. The next day Larry and I were headed for home. It was wonderful, fun, relaxing and memory making vacation so mission accomplished. Until the next one… Oh where should we go?