Today was a very good day, but a busy one. After church, Amy and I went to Oak Harbor. My Dad has been salmon fishing for the past week and had some luck, so he invited us down. On the way there, heading onto Whidbey Island through Deception Pass State Park, here's what Amy and I saw:

Pretty cool, huh? This is taken from the Fidalgo Island side. I stopped and took a few pictures. It was pretty bright, so I couldn't really see how things came out until I got home. Digital cameras are cool.

But that's not all. We took off from Oak Harbor around 3:30 and drove back to Bellingham the long way -- Chuckanut Drive. A few months back, I took some photos of some railroad tracks running along the coast. I'd thought since then that it would be really cool to have a photo of a train on those tracks.

Today, as we were driving up Chuckanut, Amy and I heard a train whistle. I immediately thought we might have a chance to catch the train on the coastline tracks. Amy saw the train and said it was heading north, so we just had to beat it to the photo spot.

And we did. More good timing!

That's the back end of the train. I have some other pictures too; this was the last one I took. Thankfully, the train was long and I was able to take a minute or so and get the telephoto lense on the camera for the final few pictures.

Oh, and by the way -- the salmon was excellent, and it's just the beginning of the sport fishing season for pink salmon. I'm looking forward to more!

After that, it was to Amy's house for evening dinner with her family, which was fun too. A nice, relaxing end to a runabout day.