Samish Island

1/6/2012

Everyone's Travel Club left the city and took a little trip up North, mainly just to drive around aimlessly on a sunny winter day. We followed the sun (seriously - we looked west from Bellingham and saw that it was sunny, so we went that way) to little Samish Island (map).

The island really isn't an island, more like a peninsula. It's small and pretty quiet with a few camps that operate in nicer weather, a few churches, one B & B, some vacation rentals, and a small whiskey distillery. I can't say there is even a restaurant, coffee shop, and definitely not a gas station...but...beautiful.

We'll definitely be back, with kayaks...
~Paul & Amber ETC

2 Comments

Alec Feldman

1/3/2019 12:22:17 pm

Actually it is an island, not a peninsula. Up until 1932 the island was separated from the mainland by the Southfork of the Samish river and accessed by a wooden bridge. A channel about 1/4 mile wide connected Alice Bay on the East to Padilla Bay on the West. In 1932, Skagit County built a fill to connect the island to the mainland, forcing the river to go north around the island, and making it the landlocked island that it is today.

Paul link

1/3/2019 05:43:19 pm

Alec,
A landlocked island...hmmm...[googling that...what? Nothing!?]. I will take this issue up with my friend Joe and we will argue about it for years to come haha (we’re still arguing about the difference between a pea and a bean)!

Maybe Samish Island wasn’t even an island when it was an island! Check this out - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-41255024

-Paul ETC

P.S. Peas and beans are the same thing.

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