Migael M. Scherer - A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands: Olympia to Port Angeles

A CRUISING GUIDE TO PUGET SOUND AND THE SAN JUAN ISLANDS

Olympia to Port Angeles

SECOND EDITION

MIGAEL SCHERER

Copyright 2005 by Migael Scherer. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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For my husband:
my captain,
my love,
my best friend.

And for my parents,
Warren and Sara,
who first put the oars in my hands,
and headed me out to sea.

REGION 1 SOUTH PUGET SOUND
Olympia to the Tacoma Narrows

REGION 2 TACOMA TO POINT VASHON
Including Gig Harbor

REGION 3 BLAKE ISLAND TO KINGSTON AND EDMONDS
Including Port Orchard and Poulsbo

REGION 4 INSIDE THE LOCKS
Including Lake Union and Lake Washington

REGION 6 ADMIRALTY INLET
Port Ludlow to Port Townsend

REGION 7 THE STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA
Discovery Bay to Port Angeles

REGION 8 EVERETT TO ANACORTES
Including Deception Pass and La Conner

APPENDICES
RECOMMENDED READING

Writing this book has been a lengthy voyageexhilarating, eye-opening, at times overwhelming. Im grateful to all who made it with me.

First and foremost, thanks to my husband, and to the captain and first mate on the good little ship Jack. Their skills as boaters and readers, and their common sense, have helped enormously.

Special thanks to friends who reviewed portions of the manuscript and offered their local knowledge: Jane Albee and Harold Anderson, Arne Anderson, Nancy and Don Decker, Janis and Jim Dyment, Eric Fagergren, Bob Howisey, Jim Jackson, Barbara Miles, Herm Moore, Lin Noah, Gloria and David Newman, Susan and Peter Risser, Mark Runions, and Liz Sipprell. For this second edition, I add my thanks to Mike Chamness, June Forrester, Lynn Guttman, Dee Dee and Brian Helgeson, Judy Hill, Lynn Horton, Sue Jackson, Ed Kruse, Trish Moore, Maurine Stich, and Claudia Welch.

On several occasions this project went aground, and this second edition would have floundered but for the help of others: John and his cedar-longboat crew at Potlatch, Candice Deitelhoff, Danah Feldman, Charlie Walker, Nancy and Bob Yeager, and the folks at C-Dory. A special thanks to the eagle eyes of Jeffrey Cantrell.