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Orcas Island Trip part two
Sep. 17th, 2021 04:40 pm
Our second morning on Orcas, we wandered around the village of Eastsound (that doesn't take very long) and visited the Orcas Island Historical Museum.
The museum's actually pretty fun, more interesting than I was expecting. They've taken six log cabins built by settlers in the 19th century, moved and rebuilt them in the town, then linked them all together under one roof, so each main room in the museum is one cabin. There are a lot of early settler artefacts, plus some from the indigenous people, and a lot of extra oddities. My favourite was the story of the local school district commissioner, who had to oversee all the different schools in the islands and was given a rowboat to do it with. In the five years he did the job, they estimate he rowed around seven thousand miles, and they had the rather sorry-looking boat there in the museum. It said once he got caught in a storm and it took him three days to make the ten miles between San Juan and Orcas islands....
That afternoon, we drove around the island a bit and investigated the various edges.
( Here come the photos. )
The museum's actually pretty fun, more interesting than I was expecting. They've taken six log cabins built by settlers in the 19th century, moved and rebuilt them in the town, then linked them all together under one roof, so each main room in the museum is one cabin. There are a lot of early settler artefacts, plus some from the indigenous people, and a lot of extra oddities. My favourite was the story of the local school district commissioner, who had to oversee all the different schools in the islands and was given a rowboat to do it with. In the five years he did the job, they estimate he rowed around seven thousand miles, and they had the rather sorry-looking boat there in the museum. It said once he got caught in a storm and it took him three days to make the ten miles between San Juan and Orcas islands....
That afternoon, we drove around the island a bit and investigated the various edges.
( Here come the photos. )
