A bit of background on Anacortes

Why not show your can?

Sunday morning, 8 a.m.

Small work boats ferry supplies / vehicles / etc. between the islands

Maybe the store sells "dragon breath" hot sauce

ANACORTES, WA - - We've been in Anacortes four days and will probably stay a few more.  The city of approximately 17,000 is named after the wife of one of the first settlers.  It's a scrunched up version of her name: Anne Curtis Bowman.  Not quite sure how that works.  Before the name change the area was known as Ship Harbor...which is easier to spell.
     Fildago Island, attached to Whidbey Island by the Cape Deception bridge,  got it's name from Spanish explorer Salvdore Fidalgo (1790) while Skagit County pays homage to the Skagit Indians.   
     The area quickly became a shipping port due mainly to the deep water channed between nearby Geumes Island and Fidalgo which is a link to Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands. Lumber was a big business, but it was fishing where the town and area made its name.  A plan for a railroad spur drove a lot of business and expansion, but the general economy crashed in1891 and with it plans for the RR. 
     Fishing went big-time and in 1915 the city had 11 canneries with salmon the major product.  The area proclaimed itself "The Salmon Canning Capitol of the World."  Probably smelled pretty good when the wind was right.  There is still money to be made in the fishing industry, but you have to walk really close to the large buildings at the dock to get a whiff.
     Things don't get started too early here so it's a good time to wander around and check things out.