Kukutali

Father's Day. We began with brunch at the Butcher and Baker on Latona, then drove north through La Conner and out to Kukutali, which I know fairly well, but M had never visited. This is a cool spot at the north end of Skagit Bay, with a view west through Deception Pass.

I posted from here after an early visit back in 2009 (Kiket Island 2009), when State Parks and the Swinomish were still trying to work out a mutually satisfactory way to manage the site.  They now share the job. Kiket Island, now the Kukutali Preserve, was once proposed for a nuclear plant -- a nice bedrock foundation and plenty of cold water for cooling. But thanks to seismology and economics and popular opinion, that never came to be.