Scenic Lummi Tour: Fire Danger?
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This stop on the caching tour of Lummi Island brings you to an important and familiar sign - Smokey Bear and the current fire danger level. You are looking for a camo'd matchstick container - please rehide it well!
Lummi Island - an oft overlooked gem - is the home of sustainable fisheries, historic inns, organic farms, excellent restaurants and cafes, and many artists and artisans. It is a quiet place to listen for birds as well as spotting them, and hearing Orcas splash by as they pursue their salmon meals; a place to walk the country roads for hours, engrossed in the marine views at every turn.
Lummi Island is the most northeasterly of the San Juan archipelago, and easily the most accessible. Located near Bellingham (Whatcom County), it is served by a small county ferry which makes the scenic, six minute crossing at least once an hour until mid-night. It is just two hours from Seattle, and one and a half hours from Vancouver, BC.
The island is home to a great variety of birds, and the resting spot for other migratory species. The most commonly seen are the Great Blue Heron, Red-tailed Hawk, Mourning Dove, Flicker, Pileated and Downey Woodpeckers, Swallow, Steller's Jay, Chickadee, Nuthatch, Wren, Varied Thrush, Kinglet, Cedar Waxwing, Warblers, Red-winged Blackbird, Western Tanager, Evening Grosbeak, Kingfisher, Junco and Towhee - just to name a few! Not mentioned are the numerous seabirds, ducks and geese such as the hooded merganser, rust breasted mergansers, buffleheads, harlequins, swans, Canadian geese, common loons, barn owls, great horned owls, screech owls, and more, in fact 167 different species of birds.
The most popular for spotting is, of course, the Bald Eagle. The island has eight nesting pairs and they, and their offspring, are routinely seen soaring over the island's woods and beaches. Migrating goshawks have been seen, and the peregrine falcon can be seen zipping along the West Shore, on its way back to the falcon preserve on Lummi Mountain.
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