The weekend of May 22nd-23rd we spent visiting one of Vicki's high school classmates, Lynn B. and her husband Ken, at their beautiful home in Oak Harbor, on a bluff overlooking the water back to the mainland. We were wined and dined and wined some more, given a great tour of the island, Lynn and Vicki catching up, and Ken, a retired USN captain, bringing my knowledge of naval aviation up past the gasoline era (c. 1945). He was an Intruder pilot, XO on a couple of the super-carriers, commanded a base, and administered a war college, among other things. It was a great weekend.
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From their bluff, looking back toward Mt. Baker |
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One of our outings was to Penn Cove; the marine museum there |
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So if you know mussels, you know Penn Cove mussels... |
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Dinner consisted mostly of a huge pot of steamed mussels and then salmon grilled on a cedar plank; I was in heaven
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Lynn and Vicki at Fort Casey |
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We were missing the Rhodo riot we love in England, but got to see a pretty good one in Washington |
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At the Captain Whidbey Inn |
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Back at the house, a resident eagle surveys his domain |
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An A-6 Intruder, subsonic, long range, low altitude, carrier-based; Ken flew one of these and was XO on the carrier Independence during the filming of Flight of the Intruder, which we watched one evening; not your daddy's navy, as one might say |
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