Category: Au Sable Institute/Pacific Rim Institute
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What A Year It Has Been|A Year In Review
It has been an adventure this past year. As you get older, time just keeps on speeding up faster. This year was not different.
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Falling In Love With Bivalves
A long time ago I had some very bad mussels dish at a fancy seafood restaurant which was the reason I never touched certain bivalves. Clams where the only thing I would eat with a shell in this department. This all changed when I toured the Penn Cove Mussel Farm on Whidbey Island and Taylor’s…
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Tale Of Two Forts| Casey & Ebey
Forts are all over Whidbey Island and a few are even state parks! Fort Casey was located close to where I was staying making it an easily accessible place to explore on an early crisp sunny morning and Fort Ebey just a fifteen-minute drive toward Oak Harbor. Fort Casey: Fort Casey is located five miles…
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The Island Life| Whidbey Island
If once you have slept on an island You’ll never be quite the same; You may look as you looked the day before And go by the same old name, You may bustle about in street and shop You may sit at home and sew, But you’ll see blue water and wheeling gulls Wherever your…