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Still smiling after two days in the saddle

My son and I wait for ferry on Lopez Island after finishing up ride. Everyone is happy.

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Photo op at Spencer Spit Park

Meadows and lots of driftwood at park on Lopez Island make for a scenic backdrop for this group portrait of members of a bicycle tour.

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Fog rolling in at MacKaye Harbor

Wisps of fog roll off the Puget Sound at Lopez Island

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Cycling past pastureland on Lopez Island

Don't worry, those mountains are on another island in the Puget Sound. Although the Lopez Island topography is more level than surrounding islands, people on bicycle tours will find they do just as much hill climbing.

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Take a bike vacation on San Juan Island in Washington's Puget Sound


When you're half dozing after a long bike ride and you hear someone say, “I saw whales!” there are only a few places you could be.

One of them is San Juan Island, the main island of a cluster that sit in Washington State's Puget Sound hard by the Canadian border.

The small islands — San Juan, Lopez, and Orcas — are popular with bicyclists and many bicycle touring companies make a good business running cyclists out to the islands, feeding them, bedding them down at bed & breakfast inns, and sagging a few up some of the steeper hills. …

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Climbing a hill with view of Canada to your back

Broad views from San Juan Island roads greet cyclists

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Roche Harbor

Good destination for lunch on San Juan Island; former lime mine

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Heron sculpture

An example of art in Roche Harbor area

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Bicyclist on a San Juan Island road

There are plenty of rollers for bicycle riders on San Juan Island, like this stretch of Bailer Hill Road …

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Fox peers at cyclists from roadside ditch

Black fox kit on San Juan Island

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