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Ithaka - The Get Away Rental On Whidbey Island, Wa.
VIEW: Looking at the home from the bluff across Cascade avenue.
VIEW: Here is the sunny deck - great for BBQ and sunbathing.
VIEW: Here we look at the house and the garage from Langley. Blackberries, apple trees and splendors of flowers.
VIEW: a look at the east side of the house, [...]
Transportation to Whidbey Island
Airport Shuttle
(from Sea-Tac Airport)
(800) 448-8443
Whidbey-SeaTac Shuttle
360-679-4003 Local
877-679-4003 Toll Free
Ferry Service - Washington Ferries are the number-one tourist attraction in the area. The Mukeltio/Clinton Ferry crosses from the mainland to Clinton, on Whidbey Island every 30 minutes. Check out the schedule on the WA State Ferries website.
Whidbey Island ferry services [...]
You’ll eat well on Whidbey — every Saturday you can delight in the freshest organic produce and local artisanry at either the Tilth Farmers’ Market or the Bayview farmers’ Market only minutes away from Ithaka.
Helpful Links
Whidbey Travel Maps
Northwest Boating Information
Northwest Dive News
Tide Tables and Sunrise/Sunset
Washington Audubon Society
Washington Boating Safety Officers Association
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW)
Washington State Parks
Parks
Whidbey Parks
Boy and Dog [...]
We love Langley and we encourage you to visit us.
However, Australia is fun too. Check out their sense of humor. These were posted on an Australian Tourism Website and the answers are the actual responses by the
website officials!
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Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia ? I have never seen it rain
on TV, how [...]
The Younger Son
by Robert Service
If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land,
Where all except the flag is strange and new,
There’s a bronzed and stalwart fellow who will grip you by the hand,
And greet you with a welcome warm and true;
For he’s your younger brother, the one you sent away
Because [...]
The Song of the Mouth-Organ
By Robert Service
I’m a homely little bit of tin and bone;
I’m beloved by the Legion of the Lost;
I haven’t got a “vox humana” tone,
And a dime or two will satisfy my cost.
I don’t attempt your high-falutin’ flights;
I am more or less uncertain on the key;
But I tell you, boys, there’s [...]
Ulysses
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy’d
Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, [...]
The greatest of all island poems.
May we all learn to live our lives thusly!
ITHAKA
When you set out for Ithaka, ask that your way be long
Full of instruction, full of adventure.
The Laistrogonians and the Cyclops, angry Poseidon,
You will not meet them as long as your thought is lofty,
as long as a rare emotion touch [...]