San Juan Island | Sherry Lachelle Travels

After a yummy breakfast at Rocky Bay Cafe, we boarded the ferry at Friday Harbor, San Juan Island for the 1 hour ferry trip back to Anacortes. We picked up our car and drove a couple of hours to Vancouver. We only had a 5 minute wait at the border crossing. Since it was too early to check-in, we drove on to Squamish…about an hours drive North of Vancouver…towards Whistler, on the lovely Sea-to-Sky Hwy.

We ate lunch in Squamish…notice the reflection of the mountains in the glass.

….then drove to our condo in Vancouver. The owner of the VRBO in Seattle recommended this place to us and it was in a superb location…on Beach Street…across from Granville Island. It was a bit noisy for sleeping because they don’t have air conditioning and when you leave a window open…

After checking in, we boarded an Aquabus for a 30 min. Tour of False Creek.

I recommend dining at The Sandbar, where we had dinner. This is the view from the restaurant.

It was cool to lie in bed at night and gaze out at the City lights through the floor to ceiling windows!

We drove 1 1/2 hours from Seattle to the Anacortes ferry, where we parked our car and walked onto the ferry for the hour-long ride over to the San Juan Island. I had reserved a room at the Earthbox Hotel for 1 night after our whale watching adventure. The ferry arrived in Friday Harbor…

where we disembarked and walked 2 blocks to the hotel. We explored the town after having lunch at the Downrigger restaurant on the water.

I chose the Western Prince for the whale watching and decided to book the 14 person expedition on a Zodiac boat. It was amazing. At one point, the whale named “Mike” came within 20 feet of our boat.