Space Needle in Seattle
Day 5 took us from Marysville to Seattle. It had been my intention to stay in Seattle a few days, include a whale watching tour in the middle, drive around south to Tacoma, up the other side, and then on to Port Angeles, spending time in Olympic National Park, as well as a ferry ride over to Victoria, British Columbia, to view Butchart Gardens. So I arranged for a hotel in downtown Seattle (non-refundable, and a little pricey), only to find out that the whale watching providers I was going to go with were not operating on the day I had planned for us to join them (whoops, my bad). So we had to make a change of plans. We decided to spend the day in Seattle, drive back up past Marysville where we stayed the night of Day 4, and then go on a whale watching tour out of Anacortes, Washington. That turned out to be the right move as you will soon see….