Blogs and News about Crane Island of the San Juan Islands, Washington State.
Last updated on Sun, 5 Jul 2009
San Juan County, Washington Argyle; Beach Haven; Blakely Island/Thatcher; Crane Island ; Decatur Island/Decatur; Deer Harbor; Doebay; Eastsound; Lopez; Lopez Island; Olga; Orcas Village; Orcas Island; Port Stanley; Rosario; Richardson; Roche Harbor; Shaw Island ...
Cabin feverCalled " Crane Island Retreat," it's a cabin in the San Juans that is absolutely marvelous. Having spent lots of time in San Juan cabins, and having had an architect uncle (Malcolm Cameron) who built a fabulous modern home there in the ...
Monday - June 1 - Aground on Yellow Island Reef (23 NM)The wind finally came up enough for us to navigate the North Pass and then came up strong as we were expose to the northwest flow from San Juan channel. Bolero put her shoulder down and we were headed home. But it was late (about 5:30 ...
Spring Tides 2009The basic premise of the trip was that we would leverage a particularly large tidal change (it was a new moon) that occurred at a relatively convenient time to have a three-day weekend in the San Juan Islands. ...
Mike Brown's Planets: Orcus PorcusSomeone even suggested that the name be related to Orcas Island, the largest of the San Juan Island off of the coast of Seattle. It is a well kept secret that part of the appeal of the original name “Orcus” for this Kuiper belt object was that it ... I think that just to keep Diane a little on her toes, it would be fun to remind her of this time and name the satellite “ Crane Island .” But, really, Orcus is not Orcas. And not even Shamu. So I sadly have to pass on this one. ...
Blog About The Undressed Network » Blog Archive » There are at ... ... Spanaway Steilacoom University Place Vaughn Wilkeson Blakely Island Brown Island Center Island Crane Island Decatur Island Frost Island Henry Island Johns Island Lopez Island Obstruction Island Orcas Island Pearl Island San Juan ...
and in between mucking about …burden field-(rabbit run), san juan island, 61wa, n48° 28.368′ w123° 0.865′, 50, 2270’. center island, 78wa, n48° 29.412′ w122° 49.899′, 115, 1600’. clam harbor, orcas island, wa35, n48° 37.339′ w122° 56.827′, 213, 1411’. crane island ...
notes from the kelp » Sailfloat racingWe would have won our biggest points during a memorable minute when, just yards from the rocks on the southeast end of Crane Island and caught in the doldrums with a powerful whirlpool of a current, our boat drifted up against a mooring ball ... To me those races are the San Juan's equivalent to a three legged race at a summer picnic. Have you ever thought of composing music using the rhythms of the ferry boats? The older ones have great rattle and I think would create an ...
Frequently Hit Rocks and Reefs, San Juan Islands 7/11/07 update: a note from Stu on Crane Island We live on Crane Island and I am surprised that you haven't had many rescues on the north-east corner of Crane entering Pole Pass from the north. There are rocks that are barely covered at ...
