Bowman's Bay and Rosario Beach, Anacortes

The beach smelled like oysters yesterday.

I started running at the Rosario Beach parking lot (off highway 20 outside of Anacortes) and circled out onto Rosario Head, a lungbuster with a bit of scrambling up some rocky impromptu trails, and then headed west along the beach and bluffs (on the Bowman Bay/Rosario Beach trail) to Bowman Bay. I then headed south along the beach at Bowman Bay and up another bluff trail, which heads first toward Deception Pass Bridge, and then loops around and heads back toward the beach, the Bowman Bay/Rosario Beach trail, and Rosario. I finished in about 40 minutes, and still had some time left, so I headed up onto Rosario Head again, this time taking some time at the top of the bluff to take in some scenery.

Total run time: 50 minutes
Total Ooohs and Aaahs: at least three or four, all of them having to do with the way the Sound looks from the top of a bluff -- that deep blue-green as you look down into the water... and the smells! Fecundity was the word of the day -- it smelled like LIFE -- plants and mud and the animals of the ocean -- I never complain about the weather when I get to run in a place like this!!!