Whidbey Island, WA

We arrived at Cliffside RV Park on the Whidbey Island Navy base on Sunday, July 22^nd. We’ve wanted to come to this campground for a couple of years. It truly is the best of all the military campgrounds we’ve visited the past five years. It was our daughter-in-law Ying’s birthday on Sunday, so we celebrated with cake and ice cream after dinner.

On Tuesday we went with our friends Vince & Lisa to see the “Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour” in Everett, Washington. We drove down to Clinton on the southern end of Whidbey Island and took the ferry to Mukilteo. It was only a 20-minute ferry crossing and that put us only a few miles from Boeing.

Boeing assembles all its wide-body jets at its Everett facility. They have over 30,000 employees here, working three shifts. The airplane assembly building is the largest in the world by volume and covers 98 acres. It could hold 75 NFL football fields. We saw 747s, 767s, 777s, and 787s (both passenger and cargo aircraft) being assembled.     

One of the main attractions on the north end of Whidbey Island is Deception Pass. It connects Skagit Bay, part of Puget Sound, with the Strait of Juan de Fuca. This is the most visited place in Washington state.

We drove to Gig Harbor today to spend a couple of nights and take the ferry tomorrow from Bremerton to Seattle as foot passengers. 

Steve & Julie Cornelius