Blogs and News about Reef Island of the San Juan Islands, Washington State.
Last updated on Sat, 31 Jul 2010
Pacific Northwest Seasons: Kayaking to Yellow Island: Wildflowers ... One of the many things I love about sea kayaking in Washington's San Juan Islands is paddling past scenic little islands clustered close together. One of my favorite places for island hopping is the Wasp Islands within the greater San Juan archipelago. ... After scooting under the dock and out beyond the marina, we paddle about 20 to 25 minutes southwest out of the harbor until we reach Reef Island , watching out for motorboat traffic as we cross North Pass. ...
San Juan Islands Kayak Fishing Trip Report: 6/2-6, 2010 With the plan set, our group, now four, paddles back out of the harbor towards Reef Island , part of the Wasp Island group. A quick check of my chart as we approach Reef tells me we are directly over the fifty-foot cliff where the island ...
Unlimited Towing Does Not Mean Unlimited Towing.... | Lucky EscapeSo...we asked the dispatcher if she could help us find a local towing company as we were in a rather dire situation, just bobbing around the coast of San Juan . The answer was negative - they just didnt cover that area. ...... blessed with a day of good weather (before this current front hit us) so we sailed approximately 2 hours from Marina Cay to Anegada - a destination that we could not previously go to when chartering given its tricky entrance as it is a " reef island ". ...
Blog title...Kayaking Camping and Whales, OH MY!We got into our kayaks and headed south in the San Juan Channel on the west shoreline of Jones island and into spring passage where Orca's Island was to our north and a very small island named Reef Island was to our south. ...
Life On Orcas Island: Down at the Deer Harbor DockThe easiest access from Orcas Island to San Juan Island and the Gulf Islands is from Deer Harbor. It is a south facing harbor and is very protected. In addition, Deer Harbor gets the most sunshine and the least rain of any location on Orcas . ... If you are kayaking, take a day trip around Reef Island out to Yellow Island, owned by the Nature Conservancy and carpeted with flowers each spring. Spend the night on Jones Island and look for cactus. I promise they are there! ...
Monday - June 1 - Aground on Yellow Island Reef (23 NM)Next up was North pass just north of Reef Island (you would think I would have learned something by the crappy names of these places). Having just come though Pole pass, North pass was giant. The problem, of course, became the wind. ...
San Juan Islands Pointer Island; Pole Island; Portage Island; Posey Island; Puffin Island; Ram Island; Reef Island ; Rim Island; Ripple Island; Rum Island; Samish Island; San Juan Island; Satellite Island; Sentinel Island; Shaw Island; Sheep Island ...
Sailing Frog Prints: 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. .... The wind was carrying us on a perfect line for the space between Reef Island and Orcas, and would have carried us right through Pole Pass if we had wanted. That would have been too short a sail though, so we tacked over towards Bird Rock and short-tacked our ...
They loaded up the truck and moved to Bellingham: Day trip to ... Mike was working, so I took a solo day trip to Orcas Island, one of the gorgeous San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington. The island is named for "Juan Vicente de Güemes Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo", the Viceroy of Mexico who sent an exploration expedition to the ... Starfish on the bottom of Reef Island Around Yellow Island, a ecological preserve. Madrona tree - amazing tree whose bark performs photosynthesis. Crow Valley on Orcas - most of the island if VERY rural ...
san juan kayak trip we had a little problem crossing to jones island since we misread the current atlas but after a brief stop on reef island to wait for the currents to change we made it to jones. we spend two nights on jones and used the second day to ...
