South Whidbey State Park — Friday, Mar. 5, 2010

Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island

It was such a beautiful day today that I could just not stay at home. So, I packed up two 2 year olds and took the ferry to Whidbey Island. South Whidbey State Park was our destination. I wanted to see how long the kids could hike. So I brought no backpack....ummm, that may have been a mistake. We started up the Ridge Loop Trail and the kids did fairly well. About half way through they started to get tired and about the Giant Cedar the one got tired and I had to carry piggy back style. So, we did not take the Wilbert Trail back to the start, but continued down to the campground and took the road back to the parking lot. We encounted some blowdowns, it looked like some had been cut back, but not all. It was quite muddy in several spots. We didn't get stuck, but we did have muddy boots. The mosquitos were starting to come out. We got back to the car and then took our picnic lunch down to the beach and played for several hours in the sun.