Living on the most eastern of the San Juan archipelago islands, Fidalgo island, the variety of trip & training paddle routes from here are endless. While strong currents do exist in nearly every channel surrounding our island shores, learning how to use these currents to travel in the back eddies, the mid-channel-river-like 'green tongue', along with harnessing the strength of the winds (with kayak sails), is what paddling the San Juans is all about to us... Efficiency. Speed. Using what Nature offers to help us achieve our paddling (distance travelling & racing speed) goals. Which sometimes mandates a combination of styles & skills from river and sea kayaking mixed in with occasional surfing and sailing. Adreline rushes. Personal Speed Records. Risk-taking. Innovation. ~Paddle the Islands and let Nature Inspire.~

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Welcome in the New Year, au natural~

As we start out this new year, if you live anywhere in the Pacific Northwest, take a moment to have a good look in all directions... Nature abounds! Cascade volcanoes, Olympic mountain rain forests, San Juan island archipelago. With hundreds of miles of Puget Sound waterways and shorelines as a marine maze to get lost and found again and again and again. Mt Baker after a fresh snowfall.

Mt Rainier looming over south Puget Sound.

Sailboat in Admiralty Inlet and the cloud-shrouded Olympic Mountains.

Pleasure boat in glassy Skagit Bay with Cascade foothills

Migratory snow geese in Skagit farmlands
along with migrating trumpeter swans...
and miles and miles of sunny-rain shadow-skied-Whidbey beaches to zen out on....

~Now grab yer camera and get out there!
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