Sunday, March 27, 2011

San Juan Island National Historical Park...

American Camp (explained below)
...Washington. The US and Great Britain in 1859, on the verge of war..
on this very island, over a dead pig, looked out the window and saw..
..that maybe there are better ways to settle the matter,
and we don't know who...had the pig on a platter.

A treaty was signed to indicate the "wars" end, and the camps emptied out,
Kaiser Wilhelm II oversaw the peace, back then he had clout;
so the place is preserved for all of us to go sea,
just how dumb a pigs death can be.

(It's also a nice place to the Orcas' or Killer Whales from shore)
The British Camp-formal gardens and all.
Orcas' with Mount Baker, Cascade Range in the distance
The prairie, Cascades in the distance, there is a significant collection of rare wildflowers on the Island

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