Located along the Old Ferry Road within Deception Pass State Park. The road makes for a great bike ride. From parking to the cache is almost 2 miles round trip.
Although Camano Island had long had road connections to the mainland, until 1935, there was no land route connecting Whidbey and the rest of the state, leaving residents dependent on ferry service. The unscheduled ferry took passengers between islands. To bring the ferry to your side, you had to strike the mallet against a very large metal lumberjack saw. The sound would tell the ferry pilot that it was time to cross the challenging channel.
For years Berte Olson, the first female captain in the state, and her husband ran the ferry at Deception Pass and Hood Canal. Mrs. Olson, often called, "The Tugboat Annie of Hood Canal", was born and raised on Whidbey Island, birthplace of many navigators of Northwest waters. She later owned her own company and was in charge of four ferry routes in the 1920s and into the 1950s. She had enough swing that she convinced the governor to veto a legislative bill to build a bridge across Deception Pass to save her livelihood but eventually lost the battle.
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