A Pacific Northwest travel journal
Go further.
Carry less.
Travel, paddling and sailing in the San Juan Islands, the Salish Sea and beyond.
Read the journalWe live on Bellingham Bay and spend every spare day on the water: paddling the San Juan Islands, sailing into Canada, riding the ferries out to the quieter islands. This is where we write it down: the places worth the trip, how to get there, and what we learned on the way.
Paddling · Desolation Sound
A hundred and four miles to Toba Inlet
Three and a half days by kayak into the warmest salt water north of Mexico, with bears for company and not a whale in sight.
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Paddling · San Juan Islands
Seven days around the San Juans
Places · Bellingham Bay
Home waters
Sailing · San Juan Islands
Sails up, puffies on
Cycling · Lopez Island
Lopez, the flat one
Sailing · Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island
Across the line by sail
Guides · Orcas Island
Orcas Island, from the water up
Lately on the water
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