Blogs and News about Yellow Island of the San Juan Islands, Washington State.
Last updated on Tue, 6 Jan 2009
Episode 10: On The ColumbiaThis episode features a visit to the Nature Conservancy’s Yellow Island Preserve in the San Juan Islands of the Puget Sound. Phil Green, the Yellow Island Preserve Steward, and Robin Stanton, in Media Relations for the Nature ...
Green Family Summer for Athens: Glimpses of HomeVisiting three Nature Conservancy sites (Flint Hills Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Kansas, Ball Creek Ranch Preserve in the Kootenai River Valley in Idaho, and Yellow Island on the San Juan Islands in Washington) taught them to slow ...
Transient Orca KillHe went out on the MV Sea Lion on Sunday, September 14. The video is of the T18s killing a Harbor Seal near Yellow Island in San Juan Channel. Enjoy! (Don't worry, it's not bloody.) http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=rrNwGnBoFK8.
Day trip to Orcas IslandMike 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 ...
residents vs. transientsthe residents surfacing all together in san juan channel, traveling about 1/2 mile in front of the transients. in the end, the transients drifted back and ended up circling yellow island , where they made another kill. ...
enough whales for one day - eh?...glad to report that the ts slowed down and circumnavigated yellow island snacking along the way on a harbor seal or two...the residents continued south and when they got within about 1/4 mile of the ts they turned and went back north ...
Close Encounters of the Cultural KindWe left today out of Friday Harbor heading up San Juan Channel toward members of J, K, and L pods. However, we turned around when word surfaced that some L Pod members were near Fisherman's Bay on Lopez Island. ...
on the columbiawe still had one nature conservancy preserve to visit -- yellow island in the san juans. as it happens, my great uncle murray lives in anacortes, wa, where we were to catch the ferry to friday harbor on tuesday, august 5th, ...
orcas island circumnavigation day 1tons of open campsites, beautiful beach, and trails to explore. unfortunately it was too early to call it a day so after lunch we were off again. we explored the shores of yellow island a nature preserve known for its vast wildflowers. ...
overnight expedition to jones islandafter pushing out the next morning we set off for the northeastern corner of san juan island, where we stopped for lunch before continuing out trek over to roche harbor where we ended our journey. we feasted, we paddled, we hiked, ...






