a favorite easy hike with beautiful views everywhere.. the best part is pretty much all the trails are loops so you can do 2 miles or 20 .. spots overlooking the sound. saw seals, otter , and bald eagle.

We arrived on Saturday afternoon. There were so many people there! There were cars parked close to Rosario road, and the parking lot was full. Social distancing was barely practiced by hikers, and only a few of them were covering their faces.
We only went to Bowman bay, and the trail is in great condition. In the beginning there is a fallen tree on the way to the bay.

The John Tursi Trail is a National Scenic Trail that is quite interesting.  It features an old mine, remnants of an old cabin and an old homestead site, a red rock quarry, wildflowers, Madrona trees,and views.

The small signed parking area is at the junction of Campbell Lake, Sharpe, and Donnell Roads.  Enter from Campbell Lake road.  No pass needed.  Walk 0.45 mile down Donnell Road (no parking on that road) and find the signed TH on the right.  Begin with a moderate ascent (300' in 1/3 mile).  The way then undulates up and down.  View the obvious mine on the right followed by the old cabin just below the mine.

Encounter a section with huge clusters of wild roses and other wildflowers bracketing the trail.  There is a side trail there that leads up about 75' through an open area of moss covered rocks.

The next attraction is the Red Rock Quarry on the right.  Be sure to search the history for this trail and learn the use for the rocks from this site.  There must be a Red Rock Cairn Competition based on the assortment of piled red rocks below the cliff.

You will ascend steeply after the quarry and find several view points.  Soon thereafter,  you will notice a ridge on your left.  There are paths leading to the top of the ridge.  Take them and admire the proliferation of Stonecrop that is blooming.

At 1.6 miles from where you parked, there is a junction just past the slab for the old homestead house on the left.  This was my turnaround point today because the trail continues down to Pass Lake and is not as interesting as the section leading to the junction.

There were a few mosquitoes on the Tursi Trail that kept "bugging" me, so I applied my Eucalyptus insect repellent and forgot about the bugs.

I like to hike at least five miles, so I went to Bowman Bay and hiked the Bowman Trail to Rosario Head.  There are some nice views from this trail.  The highlight, however, was a wedding on Rosario Head.

There were no other hikers on the John Tursi Trail, but there were many of them on the Bowman Bay Trail.  There were over 30 cars in the parking lot when I left, and traffic was heavy for the area as I returned home.

This is a long shot… I lost my wedding ring hiking the Lighthouse Point (outer) Loop on Friday, 05/22/20. I hope a kind soul finds it and returns it to me. 

The ring may have dropped in the northwest section of the trail - anywhere starting from a mini set of switchbacks to a part where the trail is washed out and there's a bit of scrambling afterwards. This area is also where you can take a wrong turn north and end up at a drop off. 

Anyway, I arrived in the parking lot of Bowman’s Bay around 11 AM on a Friday and it was 3/4ths full. We made our way through Lighthouse Point Loop going clockwise. There's plenty of space to sit down and enjoy the views without it feeling overcrowded. There are multiple small beaches with sketchy beach accesses, pathways to tucked away places, and killer views. Once you hit the north/east side of the trail (to finish the loop), it can be difficult to navigate due to overgrowth. Like I said before, there's a part of the trail that's washed out and requires scrambling. I don’t recommend taking children this route. The app **maps.me** was helpful in guiding us in the right way.

I wasn't going to write a report for his hike, as it is so common, but I have to share the treat that awaits you right now if you head up this way. There are lots of wildflowers all along the bluff and on the top of Goose Rock itself, but the real treat is on the back side of Goose, going up (or down) thru the forest from (or to) the Perameter trail. The woods are FULL of the big beautiful  pink blooms of our native bigleaf rhododendrons and the WA state flower!! The whole hillside is filled with them and they are pristine right now! I have hiked here quite a bit, but never caught this bloom at the right time and now is the right time! There are other wildflowers blooming also, blue camass, sea blush, yellow sedum,tapertip onion and paintbrush. After we were done at Goose, we headed over to Bowman Bay and hiked up to the bluff, where we found more little flowers, sea thrift and a very small lupine which I assume is miniature lupine.