Blogs and News about Allan Island of the San Juan Islands, Washington State.
Last updated on Tue, 9 Feb 2010
Cheating the Ferry: Anacortes to Friday Harbor - The Dash Point PirateMemorial Day weekend happened to have perfect currents for this trip: an ebb in Rosario Strait in the morning predicted for 3.4 knots, and a flood in San Juan Channel in the afternoon at 4.9 knots. But the southerlies, predicted for Sunday and ... Since there was no way I could make significant progress against a current that strong I just paddled with the current, hoping to duck in between Burrows and Allan Island for protection. But further south the waves were smaller, ...
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Allan Island Hopefully a planned trip to San Juan Island this summer will show us some more again. Whales off Burrows Island in 2007. We broke for lunch at the Cascade Marine Trail Site on Burrows. There was no sun in this little cove so it was ...
Nomadness: Geeking in the San JuansThat's what happened the other day, as we plunged through Deception Pass from sunny Cornet Bay, headed for the San Juan Islands, not taking too seriously the NOAA footnote about "occasional areas of patchy morning fog. ... We decided to compromise and tiptoe out to Allan Island , then hug its shore around to the west and cross the strait where the shipping lanes are narrower. Somewhere in there I remembered that I have a radar (all this drama had been taking place in the ...
