Camano Island State Park — Saturday, Jun. 8, 2013

Puget Sound and Islands > Bellingham Area

The wife and I took the West Rim South Beach loop trail with our two Chihuahuas. We parked at the day area and walked up to the trail head. This hike was short and pleasurable. We were not looking for a grooling ten mile hike this weekend. As I said before it was simple and fun. It starts right off on the edge of the coast. You can see the water and beach the entire hike. There are a few little hills, but nothing to write home to mom about. Once you get to the end you can take stairs down to the boat launch area or you can go up, up, up and away to the tent camping sites. We chose to go up and check out the campground. The stairs going up are steep, but not too long. We walked around the camp site and saw a brown bunny, which made my wife freak out. If she could catch it she would have taken it home. Once we made our way around the sites we took a trail downwards that dropped us right back to the original trail we started on. Had a nice hike back to the car and off we went.