Destination: Teddy Bear Cove. We started at the North Chuckanut Mountain trail head. In about a hundred yards we crossed California Street and took the Interurban trail and then left at the stairs down to Chuckanut Drive and crossed the road for the descent down to the cove. We visited the beach to the north of the headland, Brickyard Beach. There we wandered around the sandstone rocks with holes, leftover bricks, oysters, limpets and submerged squirting clams.
From there we went up onto the headland and its small forest of madrone and cedars. Since it was a low tide we were able to look down and see the rock shelf that forms the base of the headland and a few groupings of starfish waiting for the tide to turn. We dropped down to the south beach which is composed of a sand and broken sea shell midden. The south side of the headland was exposed from the beach up to the top revealing the great Chuckanut sandstone formations the area is characteristic of.
Afterwards it was lunch at the Colophon Cafe in Fairhaven.
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