A Sleepy Fieldtrip to The Skagit Valley

 

Taken on Fir Island, on the way to La Conner.

Those little hummock are the result of glacial action scraping over

harder rocks, leaving them there.

The same glaciers that dug Puget Sound.

A typical rural scene. He was going about 15 mph.

            Once upon a time, there was a little city on the South Fork of the Skagit River.

It prospered for a while in the 1800s, but then the town of Mt. Vernon took over.

Skagit City disappeared. Only the school is left.

View of the Skagit Bay Estuary.

 

Mt. Baker slightly to the left of center with winter wheat, we think.

Path atop the dike that separates the estuary from the fields.

            The original plan was to drive up highway 9 to Burlington and environs, but we got diverted. One site of interest on highway 9 is this park and museum at the site of the Nakashima dairy farm. The barn was built in 1908. The same year as this house!

            This family was interned with the rest of the Japanese, it's not a kind story.

Some photos of the working farm and family members.

One last photo. We drove by many dikes. The Skagit River is very prone to flooding!

So, there you have it. Photo report from Skagit Valley, May 9, 2026.

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