As we've mentioned in the past we live on an island in WashingtonState and as such tourism is a big business. Being a destination we often see signs of visitors. One prominent sign is the Anchorage Inn bed and breakfast in Coupeville. They get visitors from all over the world and they put the national flags of the visitors out in front of the building.
 

Here's a photo of the inn with flags from England, Canada and the United States. In the last month we've seen flags from Ireland, England, Finland and Switzerland.
 
We also enjoy all the special events around the island such as the Penn Cove Water Festival in Coupeville, www.penncovewaterfestival.com which took place a couple of weeks ago. The main event features about a half dozen different Native Northwest Indian tribes competing in canoe races. These traditional canoes range in sizes from 1 man/woman boats to 11 man boats.
 

This photo is of one of the longer boats being carried in after a race.
 
The weather this past month was really quite comfortable up until this past week. The temperatures have been in the record breaking range of the high 80's and low 90's. Finally this weekend we are back into our more normal daily highs of 65° F.
 
All in all the summer is off to a great start!
Ken and Marilyn