Pacific Northwest April-May 2023
We reserved our last full day in the Pacific Northwest for a mission: to obtain Poulsbo bread to take home and for Peg. Poulsbo bread used to be available nationally, and we got it when we lived in the Washington DC area years ago, and loved it. They have since discontinued national distribution, and the bread is now only available at Sluy’s Bakery in Poulsbo. Poulsbo is on the Olympic Peninsula, not far from Bainbridge Island, so we also had our last ferry rides across Puget Sound.
The Olympic Mountains as seen from the Kingston-Edmonds ferry
The Puyallup ferried us to Kingston WA on our way to Poulsbo
Elaine and Peg waited in the car while William explored the ferryboat.
Pleasure boats at the port of Poulsbo
Looking across the water from Poulsbo
Looking back into town from the restaurant where we had lunch on the water.
Sluy’s Bakery in Poulsbo
Elaine and Peg
Our grand finale dinner with Peg and Karen was at The Oyster Bar on Chuckanut Drive in Bow, WA. It had great views overlooking Samish Bay, from which some of our dinner was harvested!
Entering the Oyster Bar restaurant
William had raw oysters for the first time in over 40 years. Each oyster was from a different location along the Washington coast. One was from the oyster beds we could see from the restaurant. It was the best one
William approaches the oysters.
Slurp!
And yum!
Here are the four of us enjoying our last dinner together – until next time!
View from the restaurant.
The sun setting over Samish Bay marked the end of our adventure. The oyster bed is in the middle ground, and Samish Island is on the far side of the bay.
