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Destination Harrison LakeA Coastal Waterway with Endless Recreational Opportunities

By Todd Martin

One of the crown jewels of British Columbia’s Fraser Valley is Harrison Lake. This

expansive lake is better described as an inland fjord due to its 60-kilometer (37 miles) length and depths in excess of 800 feet. It has seemingly limitless recreational possibilities for the out-door inclined, due to the numerous amenities available. Boaters, anglers and floatplane enthusiasts will all find ample room to explore this aquatic playground in quiet seclusion. If you want to feel the vibe of the crowd, take in some of the plentiful summer festivals on the main beach, or spoil yourself at the Harrison Hot Springs Resort and Spa. Whatever your plea-sure, Harrison Lake boasts all the ser-vices and outdoor opportunities you can imagine.

Both shorelines and the two main islands on the lake are dotted with nu-merous private cabins, a good portion of which have water-access only. This makes boats and floatplanes essential tools on this body of water. Among the best-kept secrets of the area are the fantastic fishing opportunities avail-able this close to Metro Vancouver.

As Harrison Lake is directly con-nected to the Pacific Ocean via the Fraser and Harrison River systems, almost anything can be found lurk-ing its waters. All five species of Pacific salmon return to spawn in the numer-ous creeks and rivers of the area. Of these, sockeye salmon are most plen-tiful, along with pinks in odd-num-bered years. Rainbow trout, Dolly Varden char and steelhead are also present. Even massive white sturgeon can be caught nearby. However, the best fishery on Harrison Lake itself is for coastal cutthroat trout.

Cutthroat trout in the lake can be anadromous, or sea-run, which means they migrate between salt and fresh water numerous times during their lifetimes. Other cutthroats in the lake are permanent freshwater resi-dents. Either way, their primary food source are salmon fry that rear in the lake before embarking on their migra-tion to salt water. Find the salmon fry and you will find the trout. Cut-throat trout are aggressive feeders that will move throughout the lake in a constant search for food. If they are actively feeding, they almost always

show themselves, and you will see the telltale signs of trout swirling or salm-on fry thrashing on the surface in an attempt to escape.

The best time to fish Harrison Lake is between late March and late June; this is when the salmon fry hatch and migrate downstream. By targeting the mouths of these salmon-spawning creeks, along with small sheltered bays where the fry congregate, you will find feeding trout. One of the best places to fish on the lake is 20 Mile Bay. This large, crescent moon-shaped bay is ap-proximately halfway up the lake on the Western side. It has an expansive sandy beach for camping and its shal-low waters stay warmer than the main body of the lake. On a warm spring day, you can watch cutthroat trout ac-tively feeding in this area and this is how you can best target them.

Coastal cutthroat trout tend to be very aggressive and will hit almost anything that is properly presented to them. The key for this fishery is find-ing the fish. You need to think river-fishing tactics here: cast and move. If you are not having success, move to another location. Other prime spots

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to wet a line in Harrison Lake are the mouths of Cogburn and Hale Creeks, which are both prime salmon-spawn-ing habitat. Also be sure to try Doctors Point, Cascade Bay and the mouth of the Harrison River.

My preferred angling method in the spring is shallow-trolling small brass or silver lures and buck-tail flies. I prefer to troll with 100 feet of line out, on or just below the surface. Some of my pre-ferred trolling lures are the Apex from Hot Spot Lures and the F.S.T. from Gibbs Delta Tackle. Other methods include spin casting crocodile lures, and of course fly casting from a boat or the beach with muddler minnow or buck-tail fly. A good tactic during the fall salmon migration through the lake is to cast a float and single egg near the outlets of any of the creeks previously mentioned.

There are some floatplane enthusi-asts that fly into 20 Mile Bay just to enjoy the spring fly-fishing opportuni-ties from the beach. Come here on a

weekday and you are almost guaran-teed to have the entire beach to your-self.

Angling pressure on Harrison Lake is low. So when fishing here, you will not experience any crowds. Most lo-cal anglers and guides overlook the lake and focus on the Harrison River, which is only a few miles long and connects Harrison Lake to the Fraser River. The Harrison River has been described as a trout angler’s dream due to the crystal-clear back channels that provide year-round pristine habitat and great fishing.

Several guiding outfits operate on the river; the best equipped is the B.C. Sportfishing Group (www.bcsport-fishinggroup.com). They are in turn partnered with the most respected fishing tackle shop in the Fraser Valley, Fred’s Custom Tackle (www.fredscus-tomtackle.com). If you want an amaz-ing angling experience while in the area, look them up and book a trip.

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Access to Harrison Lake, Harrison River and the resort area is from the town of Harrison Hot Springs. This is a pleasant one-hour drive east from Vancouver, B.C. on either Highway #1 or #7. Highway #7 is a scenic route that winds its way east through several small towns and farms on the way to the lake. Both routes provide paved, easy access to this outdoor playground.

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Navigating the Harrison River to Harrison LakeOnly 18 kilometers (about 11 miles) in length, the Harrison River is short. It starts on the Fraser River near the town of Kilby, BC and ends at the south end of Harrison Lake -- a stone’s throw from Harrison Hot Springs Resort. There are two boat launches near the southern end of the Harrison. You can launch at Island 22 in Chilliwack and travel upstream on the Fraser, where the Harrison River confluence can be found. Alternately, Kilby Provincial Park has a boat ramp and picnic area immediately southeast of the Harrison River Bridge on Highway # 7. If launching from Island 22, an aluminum jet boat is highly recommended. Propeller-driven boats do just fine up the river when launched from Kilby, but study a map of the river first. Be mindful of wood debris and sandbars anywhere outside the main channel. Navigating the entire river from Kilby to Harrison Lake should take you approximately one hour.

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By Dr. Jasper Lament

Brant Geese A Journey

of a Lifetime

I t was a clear, late February day on the eastern shores of Vancou-ver Island. Soft, lapping waves on

sandy beaches were met with a familiar sight: the shadow of a mallard-sized, majestic bird gliding over the sun’s re-flection. The bird seemed tired but re-laxed as it finally arrived at its holiday home, taking a well-deserved rest after a long journey.

The Brant goose was not alone. Over the next month, its family and thousands of others joined the lead-ing bird in relaxing and feasting on vegetation during their trip from Baja California to their breeding grounds in the Arctic.

The Pacific Brant goose is one of three subspecies of the animal. While the Pacific Brants travel from north-eastern Siberia to north-central Can-ada, Alaska to Mexico and Russia to Japan, the other dark-bellied Brant geese breed mainly in Russia and mi-grate to Denmark, the Netherlands, Britain and France. The light-bellied Brant geese breed in eastern Canada, northwest Greenland and Spitsbergen while wintering on the Atlantic coast-line of North America, Denmark, Ire-land or northeast England.


The long journey As the lone Pacific Brant goose

surfed the gentle waves of the Strait of Georgia, it was preparing for nature’s feast – the mostly herbivorous animal was getting ready to refuel on sea let-tuce and eelgrass as the tides went out, while it avoided terrestrial predators at night by floating on the ocean.

In the following weeks, the ring-leader was joined by a large chorus of vocal geese, starting with the breeding birds, followed by non-breeders and the previous year’s young. As many as 10,000 geese can be found at the peak of the Brant’s stopover from Saratoga Beach to Nanoose Bay, an area The Nature Trust of British Columbia, a leading land-conservation organiza-tion in the province, has helped to protect (www.naturetrust.bc.ca).

The east coast of Vancouver Island has been the midway staging site for the Pacific Brant for centuries. Its

unique geography protects the Brant from threats such as severe weather from the Pacific Ocean. With indent-ed shorelines and barrier beaches, the Parksville-Qualicum area also pro-vides nutritious, protein-rich food in the form of seaweed, eelgrass and her-ring-spawn eggs to prepare the Brant for the final leg of the 4,500-kilome-tre journey to its breeding grounds in the Arctic.

During springtime, the Brant fol-low a green wave of new, highly nu-tritious plant growth northward from their temperate wintering areas to breed in the Arctic. While the geese graze in these coastal habitats of Brit-ish Columbia, the newly breeding male Brant displays to spectating fe-males in the hope of being picked as a potential mate. Before leaving for their northern breeding grounds in Alaska starting in mid-March, the Brants choose mates according to the

similarity of their white neck collars. The loyal birds usually mate for life and show fidelity to both wintering as well as breeding areas.

In their Alaskan breeding grounds in May, the Brants nest in colonies. The females build elaborate nests us-ing sedges and grasses into what some consider the most beautiful of all wa-terfowl nests. When the mother leaves the nest to feed, it covers the eggs with her down, which acts as both insula-tion and camouflage. The clutch of between three and five eggs hatches in about 24 days.

With long days and an abundance of food, young Brants grow quickly. Those who can defend themselves against predation from Arctic foxes, jaegers and glaucous gulls fly after 45 days from being born. The fam-ily then waits at Alaska’s Izembek Lagoon for the Pacific weather sys-tems to help them on their southern


migration. Once the winds are just right, near the end of October and early November, the geese head to their wintering ground in Mexico.

Breed differentiators The unmistakable Brant is excep-

tional amongst geese for its strong, efficient flight, travelling extraordi-nary distances of several thousand ki-lometers as it migrates after breeding in the Arctic. The Brant typically flies in tight, highly maneuverable groups, achieving remarkable speeds of up to 99 kilometers per hour as it beats its large, narrow wings rapidly.

Often mistaken for a Canada goose, the Brant is smaller with a shorter neck, weighing between one and a half to two kilograms. The Brant also has a “white necklace” of feathers around the top of its neck, a unique characteristic for the bird. Unlike the Canada goose, it also does not have

white eye patches.

ProtectionThe North American Waterfowl

Management Plan is a partnership among Canada, the United States and Mexico to conserve waterfowl popu-lations and sustainable landscapes through decisions based on biological foundations. The Brant goose is one of the species managed through this plan. Since its creation in 1986, part-ners have worked to conserve and re-store wetlands and other key habitats for waterfowl across the three coun-tries. Many waterfowl populations are larger than they were in 1986 and partners have reached out to collabo-rate with other bird-conservation ini-tiatives.

Since the mid-1990s, the Canadian Wildlife Service has been monitor-ing the health of Brant on the Pacific Flyway using something known as the

Abdominal Profile Index, which is a measure of fat reserves. In the late 1990s it was noted that this index in Brant was consistently falling year over year, as were the overall numbers of birds in the Parksville Qualicum Beach Wildlife Management Area. In response to this trend, the Canadian Wildlife Service and the Vancouver Island Conservation Land Manage-ment Program undertook a series of studies to determine the cause of the decline. These studies found that hu-man-caused disturbance in the Wild-life Management Area were among the highest recorded in the world for Brant. In 2003 and continuing today, the program coordinated the closures of critical portions of the area to pro-tect the birds, developed signage and brochures to educate the public, and created a partnership with Vancou-ver Island University for monitoring of the closure and public outreach.



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Surveys following the implementa-tion of these conservation measures identified overwhelming evidence that the condition and numbers of Brant improved. Similarly, public at-titudes and compliance with closures changed dramatically.

Loss of winter habitats is one of the most critical threats to Brants as they depend more on natural win-tering habitats than any other goose species. Much of the coastal habitat that the birds use is subject to human activities through industrial, resi-dential and resource development. Long-term effects of climate change also pose a threat. Frozen feeding ar-eas, pollution and oil spills in even one staging or wintering area could have detrimental effects on the entire Brant population.

Beaches in the Parksville-Qualicum area are closed to dogs throughout March and April to prevent distur-bances to the Brant, but eco-tourists can view the birds’ amazing migration using spotting scopes or binoculars.

And humans aren’t alone. The ar-rival of the Brant coincides with the annual herring spawn off Vancouver Island, which is a feast for sea lions, gulls, eagles and myriad marine spe-cies. Many tour groups take this op-portunity to visit the bays around Vancouver Island as numerous seals, sea lions, orcas and white-sided dol-phins are attracted to the milky blue waves of herring spawn.

It’s no small wonder that hundreds of tourists visit Vancouver Island to witness this very accessible wildlife spectacle every year.

The unique landscapes of British Columbia hold the secret to the sur-vival for these amazing creatures as well as many other species, which is why The Nature Trust’s mandate is to conserve ecologically significant land. Without natural safe havens such as the estuaries and shores of Parksville-Qualicum, keystone and indicator species such as the herring and the Brant will be no more.


Tofino Air Seaplanes

By Pat Awmack

To understand Tofino Air it’s important to understand where it came from.

Scattered along the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island lie the tra-ditional territories of several First Na-tions bands. Cut off from any large center, these communities are ac-cessible only by water, making the movement of supplies a challenge. In

an effort to meet this challenge, John Walter founded Walter’s Air Service in 1970, flying groceries and supplies from the town of Tofino to the nearby communities of Ahousaht and Hes-quiaht.

The territory of the Ahousaht First Nation includes most of the Clayo-quot Sound Biosphere Reserve, an area renowned for its wildlife and old-

growth rainforest. With the translation of Ahousaht being “people living with their backs to the land and mountains, on a beach along the open sea,” it’s easy to understand how reliant this isolated community is on floatplanes. The same goes for the First Nation of Hesquiaht, the most northerly and re-mote of the First Nations in this area.

Walter’s Air Service was only in


business for a couple of years before ceasing operations. It was later resur-rected for a short stint as McCulley Air, by pilot Gary Richards and part-ners. Then, in May 1985, Gary and pilot Doug Banks resurrected it again, giving it the name Tofino Air. For the first three years, they used the Weigh West dock in Tofino, before moving to the base on 1st Street, where they are still located today.

When it came time to sell the com-pany to its current owner, Chris Dan-roth, Doug stayed on as a line pilot and mechanic for another 11 years.

Danroth, originally a logger, owned two logging camps – in Seymour In-let and north of Bella Bella on the BC coast -- and a mobile timber-sales unit. Although not a pilot himself, he owned a private airplane which was used for moving his loggers in and out of the camps.. In 1992, four years before closing the camps, he founded an airline called Midcoast Air, with bases in Bella Bella, Port McNeill and Sechelt. Midcoast purchased Tofino Air in 2000. In January 2001, he also purchased Pacific Spirit Airlines, with its Silva Bay, Gabriola Island-to-Van-couver route. However, he has recently divested himself of that route, selling it to his former chief pilot and opera-tions manager.

Although Tofino Air flew into the Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre for a few years, they’ve recently discon-tinued that run and streamlined their operation. According to Operations Manager Buffy Barrett, “There are a lot of companies flying into and out of Vancouver, and we decided we’d stick with what we do best and do those routes really well.”

Today, with 15 employees, the company runs three floatplane bases: in downtown Nanaimo and Tofino – both on Vancouver Island - and Sech-elt, on the mainland.

With a fleet of four de Havil-land Beaver DHC-2 floatplanes, two Cessna 180s and a state-of-the-art de Havilland Turbine Single Otter,

Doug Banks and Gary Richards launched Tofino Air on the beautiful but remote west coast of Vancouver Island.


the airline offers four daily scheduled flights between Nanaimo and Sechelt, and scheduled flights between Tofino and Ahousaht, and Hot Springs Cove in the Hesquiaht nation. They hold the Canada Post contract to deliver the mail to Ahousaht and fly a doctor into Ahousaht daily and to Hesquiaht every two days.

Barrett says, “One of the great things about our airline is we’re small and we have a lot of commuters who go back and forth. We know everybody by their name, we know exactly what they need and we know when they need to go.”

The west coast of Vancouver Island offers miles of wild beaches with huge surf, hot springs, pristine glacial lakes, whale-watching and spectacular scen-ery. Charter flights out of the Tofino base present the opportunity to expe-rience this vast, unspoiled wilderness.

Can’t decide between whale-watch-ing and taking a floatplane ride? Why not do both? One of the company’s most popular tours has it partnering with Jaime’s Whaling Station on a ‘Sea-to-Sky’ tour which offers whale-watching from a boat, a drop-off at Hot Springs Cove, where you’ll have time to enjoy the natural pools, and a flight back to Tofino later in the day. It’s truly the best of all worlds.

Or would you like to camp in an old-growth rainforest, surrounded by some of the most beautiful wilder-ness in the world? Book a flight to Hot Springs Cove and spend a few days enjoying nature. Or try your luck trout fishing or enjoying some hiking and canoeing by chartering a flight to majestic Strathcona Park. Barrett says, “We’ll basically take you anywhere you’d like to go. As long as the weather is good and we can stop for fuel, we’ll do it.”

While logging is no longer the booming industry it once was, other opportunities have evolved. Josh Ram-say, pilot and general manager, is con-stantly working to diversify business opportunities on the Nanaimo/Sech-


The breathtaking terrain of British Columbia offers plenty of opportunity for scenic flightseeing tours and charter flights for the adventurous. Left: Owner Chris Danroth and son are proud of their grassroots airline.


elt route. Scenic flightseeing up the Sechelt inlet – where, if you’re lucky, you’ll see mountain goats and bears – delivering groceries and passengers to coastal fishing resorts, and trans-porting workers to the Narrows Inlet Hydro Project on the Sunshine Coast are just a few such options.

Ramsay is also working at building relationships with hotels and bed-and-breakfasts in Nanaimo with the idea of building the flightseeing business in that area. Most people pass through Nanaimo on their way elsewhere but Ramsey would like to see it become a destination in its own right.

“One of the great things about our airline is that we’re small and we’re really grassroots,” says Barrett. “We know our customers, we know the doctors that we fly by name; to us it’s all about customer service and get-ting to know the people that we fly. Because we’re a small company we can do that. It’s a lot of fun – we’ve got a great team.”

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From Farm to Table Measured in Steps

By Russ Young

The chef is a 28-year-old woman from Van-couver Island who takes “food vacations” to Europe, Asia and South America.

The farmer is a 77-year-old native of the Neth-erlands who emigrated to Australia. He worked as a chef in various hotels and cattle stations in Queensland and Northern Territories, before moving to Canada, where he began raising cattle and horses on his ranch in the Chilcotin-Cariboo country.

Together, they form the best kind of “odd couple” – a contrasting pair that works in partnership in re-defining “farm-to-table” dining on British Colum-bia’s Salt Spring Island.

In this case, the farm and the table are separated by a matter of yards (or meters, as you prefer), on the grounds of the Harbour House Hotel, Restaurant & Organic Farm in the island village of Ganges.

The 2.5-acre farm, managed by Rob Scheres, is located just a short walk across the hotel’s grounds from the restaurant kitchen, where Brooke Winters and her team hold court.

Raised in Cassidy, BC as part of a hunting and fishing family, Winters began recognizing her talent, and her passion, for cooking when she “excelled” in her high school cafeteria classes. She received more formal culinary Red Seal Certified training, and has spent time honing her skills in various British Co-lumbia locales, including Victoria and Vancouver. She came to the Harbour House as executive chef in 2012.

Winters has not only competed for Team Cana-da in international culinary competition, she also plans her vacations around learning new foods and recipes in countries that have included Spain, Japan and Mexico. (Her two standout memories are Ja-pan, where she worked with elderly women in their kitchens, and Chile, where she marveled at the sea-food in Santiago.)

Scheres is an energetic septugenerian who began learning farming from his Dutch grandfather until moving to Australia at age 22. It was there that he met his Irish wife-to-be, before they moved back to the Northern Hemisphere.


Working on their cattle ranch and hunting camp, dozen of miles from the nearest neighbor and 80 miles from the nearest town, Scheres refined the self-sufficiency and ingenuity he harnesses in managing the Harbour House’s farm.

The farm, which had lay dormant for many years and was covered in brambles, was first “revived” by prop-erty owner Jack Woodward through two years of work. Scheres arrived when most of the clearing was done. In addition to helping finish clearing the ground, he built a propagation room using an old canopy from the hotel that was found on the site, then plumbed and wired the structure him-self. This is where he starts the farm plants from seed. About five years ago he added two greenhouses (called “cool

houses” because no heat is used except in extremely cold weather, which hap-pens rarely on Salt Spring.)

If it’s not obvious, the entire farm is organic. Compost from the restau-rant, chickens and sheep completes the loop from farm to table to farm; a small herd of goats keep the unfarmed area tidy. A six-foot fence prevents in-cursions by local deer, while an on-site colony of feral cats discourage visits by rabbits.

One of the advantages of the farm’s long dormancy was that the ground was kept free of chemicals, making it desirable for organic growing.

Wireworms present one of the farm’s challenges, since they particularly en-joy the neighboring grass. Scheres says that the key to keeping them in check is “turning the ground, keeping it as clean as possible, and rotating crops.”

Apparently, his approach is success-ful. The farm currently produces 70

Brooke Winters’ farm-fresh menus can be viewed on-line. The restaurant features live dinner music every weekend.

“They said cantaloupes couldn’t be grown up here,” but the farmer

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types of vegetables, fruit and herbs for use in the restaurant, ranging from leeks and tayberries to free-range eggs, lamb and maple syrup. Woodard has a hand in the proceedings; as a third-generation beekeeper, he tends to the hives that produce the restaurant’s honey.

Winters and Scheres work closely to-gether in planning her menus around what will be ready to harvest, while she often provides him with sugges-tions for what could be added to the list of farm products. “They said can-taloupes couldn’t be grown up here,” Scheres said, but he found a way. So if you come to brunch at the Harbour House – it was recently named one of the best by Canadian Traveller and “Best Brunch” by FoodDay Canada – be sure to savor that slice of canta-loupe!)

In season the chef and the farmer estimate that 80 percent of the restau-rant’s produce is grown on the adja-


cent farm. That which is not raised on the farm – grass-fed beef, free-range chicken and Ocean Wise seafood, for instance – is purchased from nearby suppliers.

When there is a surplus of fresh veg-etables, herbs and fruits, the Harbour House opens its farm stand. Scheres notes that the honor-box payment system is often perplexing for visiting city-dwellers, who are sure they should wait to pay an attendant.

But, like so many who visit Salt Spring Island, they quickly come to learn that the Harbour House is as laid-back and friendly as the surround-ing community – and that it is home to literal farm-to-table food.

More Information:Rob Scheres leads daily 11:00 am

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And that’s just what outside. The two bedroom, three-bathroom house itself is a statement in casual



comfort, mixed with fine craftsman-ship and incredible attention to de-tail. Cedar, granite and fir have been used in the finest Pacific Northwest tradition. Large, stacked windows maximize the views of the water and provide year-round natural light.

But here’s the kicker: this is just the guest house. The best is yet to come, in the form of a larger main house -- provided that’s what the next owner chooses to do.

Perfect as it may seem, the 1,223 square-foot “First Lady” was only envisioned as housing for visitors when the Deans completed it in 2001. There are plans drawn, and grandfathered permits in place, for a couple of versions of a main house -- designed to match and comple-ment the guest house, and vice versa -- which could be up to 3,350 square feet.

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The guest house presents many reasons to at least consider the “or not” option. The vaulted ceilings and big windows make it look and feel much more spacious than its square footage would indicate. Ed points out that there are no hallways inside, which makes maximum use of the floorspace.

The design, quality and attention to detail are evidence that Ed had a long career as a builder, and that Carol is an interior designer. (They’re both natives of western Washington. He’s retired after nearly 50 years of building more than 7,000 homes and





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commercial buildings in the Seattle-Tacoma area. Semi-retired, Carol still takes on some design work.)

There are two bedrooms and two bathrooms upstairs, along with an efficiently designed eat-in kitchen, and a “gathering room” with a large wood-burning granite fireplace and a wonderful view of the bay. It’s not hard to imagine curling up with a book or listening to music with a crackling fire going, appreciating the warmth on those days and nights where the weather says, “stay in-doors.”

The wide-plank fir flooring was re-claimed from a schoolhouse in Can-ada. Similarly, the timber posts and ceiling beams are also reclaimed fir. The ceilings are cedar; the cabinets and shelving are alder.

At the same time, the fixtures and appliances are all modern and highly efficient, with names like SubZero, Bosch, Dacor, Dornbacht and Pratt & Larson.


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Downstairs there is an “overflow room” and adjoining bathroom that can accommodate additional guests, or serve as an office, hobby room or workout area. The lower floor also has wine storage, a laundry room, a shop area and enclosed parking for two cars.

Outside, a bluestone, granite and glass terrace overlooks the bay, and seems well suited for morning cof-fee or a sunset cocktail – and ev-erything in between. (Underneath, you’ll discover a granite-and-cedar storage area for firewood, gardening equipment and/or outdoor gear. It’s finished with the same level of crafts-manship as the rest of the house; an-other testament to the builder.)

Nearby there’s a garden area with raised beds and a porch swing for tak-ing in the view. It’s fenced in, which is a necessity on an island where deer wander freely. Spend much time out-side, and you’ll see eagles, ducks and geese. And just off shore is the aptly named Seal Rock.

Since “location, location” is the mantra when it comes to real estate, it’s worth noting that the Dean’s home is well positioned on the is-land. Nearby Westcott Bay offers good crabbing, and some of the best fishing around the island is just min-utes away, outside Mosquito Pass. Roche Harbor is just around the proverbial corner from the house; Friday Harbor and its ferry landing are only 20 minutes away. There is scheduled and charter seaplane and wheel-plane service to and from both.

The Dean’s decision to defer con-struction of the main house has cre-ated a wonderful dilemma for the next owners of the “First Lady:” to build, or not to build? Fortunately, the house, the terrace, the 1.14-acre grounds and surrounding waters seem like ideal places to spend time pondering such a decision. What seems clear is that there will be no wrong answer.


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4 • Spacious Living Over 4000sqft with backyard paradise, fabulous views of mountains,valleys and water

5 • Imagine-Huge Waterfront On Pointwith 180 views! Easy beach, comfortable home and guest house

6 • Beautiful Panoramic Views, low bank waterfront, guest quarters, shop, green-house, shared dock

7 • Architect Designed One Level Home, over 2 private wooded acres, meditation garden, spa, fire pit, views

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11 • Prestigious Waterfront Location, sparkling indoor pool and private spa, watch the whales swim by

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The Very “Vashonable” Salmon of South-Central Puget Sound

By Terry W. Sheely

South of Seattle and north of Tacoma, Vashon Island is a 37-square mile “salmon stop-

per” crammed into the throat of Puget Sound.

The island forms a plug that divides central and southern Sound saltwater, creating a lane of good salmon fishing not far from the major metropolitan corridor.

Vashon is rimmed with the twisted red trunks of madrona trees and high banks that push migrating summer salmon against the shorelines of nar-row Colvos Passage to the west, and East Pass to the east.

East Pass is the salmon funnel for the majority of South Sound salmon The peninsular points, current rips, ledges, lay holes, channels, drifts and bait balls that are squeezed around the island dominate Puget Sound summer salmon fisheries from Seattle south.

Schools of legal-to-eat, fin-clipped kings and hatchery silvers surge down the East Pass from mid to late sum-mer and into early fall. First arrive the kings in July and August, followed by silvers in late August and chums into October.

Salmon come through here in fits, starts and stampedes.

During the year anglers will get a

crack at resident blackmouth in No-vember and December and again in February and March; summer kings in July and August; ocean coho from mid-August into October; and chums from October through November.

The anchor for this fishery is oppo-site the south end of Vashon Island at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Marina -- the last big boathouse on Puget Sound. Operated by Metro Parks Tacoma, the

facility is a wealth of hot-spot updates, rental boats, live herring, tackle, fuel and fish stories. A seven-lane pub-lic boat ramp adjoins the ferry dock. Other ramps convenient to Vashon are at Redondo (Federal Way) and the town of Gig Harbor.

The summer’s first salmon runs are targeted on points on the island’s northern tip, in the rocks and ragged bottom of the Allen Bank. Resident


blackmouth and spawners hold tight to the Bank, occasionally sliding south toward Dolphin Point.

Kings follow the shifting herring balls between the Southworth ferry dock and Blake Island. I’ve caught ocean silvers in the frothy rips that de-velop on tide changes at the Bank and Dolphin Point, trolling flashers and hoochies or tight-spinning plug-cut herring. Kings will sometimes follow the fast-dropping east shore of Vashon, on the 90- to 150-foot contours, and if there’s bait they’ll stop around Point Beals.

A more consistent promise brims on the Des Moines side of East Pass at Three Tree Point, a peninsula jutting sharply off shore and tapering into a submerged ledge that drops into 300 feet of water. Three Tree is one of the first and most important staging areas for summer kings headed south. Off the point, the fishy side of the ledge is determined by ebb and flood tides. It’s a snaggy area and old-timers prefer to troll safely above the bottom with flashers using either squid, Ace High flies, or small green, purple or blue plugs. July is tops, but there will be chinook here well into August.

And late August is when the ocean silvers arrive, looking for trolled flash-ers and flies, herring or plastic squid anywhere from 30 to 100 feet deep, staying on the froth line.

Point Robinson is the dominant point reaching from Vashon into East Pass. It’s marked by a lighthouse, strong tidal rips, deep water and, in-frequently, baitfish. The point short-stops a lot of salmon. Salmon angling instructor John Keizer points out that the key to catching Point Robinson salmon is finding and fishing baitfish. “Fish the bait—nowhere else,” he says.

For summer kings Keizer trolls with the current, and brackets a mix of shal-low and deep water until pinpointing the depth at which salmon are migrat-ing. Both bait moochers and trollers can score here.

Back across East Pass at Redondo



is the only public boat ramp between Seattle and Tacoma, and parking is congested. The ramp, however, sits squarely on a productive salmon mi-gration line where a drop-off plunges to between 100 and 150 feet. It runs north-south and is followed by every fish swimming south in Puget Sound. Keizer says that summer chinook sometimes stratify 40 to 60 feet un-der the surface along here. He recom-mends trolling plugs and herring off downriggers, and changing depths un-til fish are located.

The Redondo drop-off follows the beach for six miles between Saltwater State Park and Commencement Bay, and is a highway for most salmon headed south from July into Novem-ber. Kings comes first in July, followed by silvers in August and September, and chums in October and November.

“I have had my best luck on chi-nook,” Keizer confides, “during Au-

gust fishing the deep drop offs located in front of Browns Point. Fish the north side of Browns Point on the in-coming tide and high slack, then on the outgoing troll south of the point. He favors trolling Silver Horde glow white 5-inch rattle plugs or flasher and squid combinations for fall kings, and fresh herring, rigged whole or cut plug, is tough to beat.

Fall silvers whack cut-plug herring trolled off downriggers or behind a Deep Six-diver planer in the top 30 to 50 feet. Keizer’s “ace in the hole” tech-nique is to troll a Hotspot flasher off the downrigger ball and run a Silver Horde Sonic Edge spoon or cut-plug herring just above it. “This setup gives you the attraction of a flasher, without the pull on the line of the flasher when you hook up with a salmon.”

Point Dalco is the southern tip of Vashon Island you’ll want to be here on the incoming tide mooching in

front of the ferry dock in about 100 feet of water toward deeper water at Point Dalco. Peak bites at Dalco are first light, dusk and between one hour before and two hours following a tide change. Trollers favor Hotspot flashers in green glow with a herring rigged in a helmet. It’s a “Vashon statement.”


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Kicking Off The Salish Sea Marine Enhancement Project

By Stephen Bruyneel


The Salish Sea is vast, spanning about 17,000 square kilome-ters (6,564 square miles),

including Washington state’s Puget Sound, Strait of Juan de Fuca and San Juan Islands, and British Columbia’s Gulf Islands and Strait of Georgia.. So when the Pacific Salmon Founda-tion looked for a place to initiate the Salish Sea Marine Enhancement Proj-ect, it was a challenge. Its choice – the Cowichan River, estuary and bay on Vancouver Island – may seem odd to some people, but it made perfect sci-entific sense.

“Cowichan is a model site to ini-tiate the field study,” said Dr. Brian Riddell, president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Salmon Founda-tion. “It has a natural river, significant estuary and relatively confined bay; there is a large history of work that has been carried out in the area on ju-venile chinook and coho salmon; and we have strong local support, includ-ing from First Nations.”

What to do…and who to lead How to best structure and coordi-

nate the work was the next task, with the latter being key given the Founda-tion’s role as the catalyst for involving groups in the overall Salish Sea initia-tive. The challenge was given to Dr. Isobel Pearsall, who is also the project lead at the Strait of Georgia Data Cen-tre.

“We have devel-oped a compre-hensive project to examine juvenile Chinook habitat usage, growth and survival in the river, estuary and the near-shore en-vironment,” explained Dr. Pearsall. “Our key goals are to identify the most significant factors affecting the marine survival of juvenile Cowichan salmon, which aligns with the prima-ry objective of the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project.”

The studies will focus on everything

Dr. Dick Beamish with Joy Wade of Fundy Aqua Services use gill nets to sample for potential fish predation.


from how salmon use and migrate through their various habitats to their food supply, what is preying on them, and even how wild salmon interact with those released from hatcheries. Given the breadth of work, a large group of scientists and volunteers is involved.

“My role as overall project coor-dinator includes working with all of the participants,” added Pearsall. “For the Cowichan study, this includes Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) scientists; academics at the Universities of British Columbia and Victoria; the BC Conservation Foun-dation; the Cowichan First Nation; Cowichan Hatchery staff; summer students; various consultants; char-tered and DFO vessel operators; and many volunteers from the area.”

Bottom up…One of the approaches being taken

in the study is called “bottom up;” i.e., studying the production of what salmon eat. Leading that effort is Dr. Eddy Carmack, a retired climate re-search scientist from the Institute of Ocean Studies.

“As a physical oceanographer, I look at how the mixing and circulation of ocean currents impacts the base of the salmon food chain,” said Dr. Carmack. “We have a number of hy-potheses that we are testing to try and

determine what the im-pacts are on salmon.”

Dr. Carmack will also work closely with other scientists, some-

thing which he believes is unique and will be critical to the Salish Sea initia-tive’s overall success.

“It’s the first time in my experience that oceanographers and fisheries bi-ologists are working side by side, put-ting aside their own agendas in favour of a common cause – that of salmon!”

And top down…The opposite – but equally impor-

tant – research approach is to look

A Rotary Screw trap in the estuary used for counting fish.


at what preys upon salmon (i.e., the “top down” view). Whales, seals and birds are all thought to have a role, and Dick Beamish is looking at that.

“I’ve been using my boat to set gill nets overnight in Cowichan Bay, an approach that has never been done before,” explained Dr. Beamish. “The nets have six different mesh sizes and are dropped thirty feet deep, so they should be able to catch just about anything that could prey on salmon.”

The results to date are already surprising.

“Amazingly, we are not catching much of anything!” exclaimed Dr. Beamish. “I am going to take the same approach fur-ther out in the Deep Bay and Bowser area, but if the results are the same, it really will cause us to challenge our views on the role of sea-based predation on salmon survival.”

From Cowichan to the rest of Salish Sea

Work in the Cowichan area will continue over the next three years. But as new information – both re-garding salmon and the way they are studied – is discovered, it will quickly be applied to other areas and parts of the Salish Sea initiative.

“What is learned in this study is in-tended to provide the foundation for similar studies in multiple watersheds around the Strait of Georgia,” said Dr. Pearsall. “Each location will have specific attributes and differences that we will have to address, but the Co-wichan study will provide our build-ing blocks.”

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Fat claws dripping streams of melted butter...succulent white flakes molded into cakes and

slathered with sauce...meaty chunks mixed with thick Roma tomatoes and buried in avocados – there is no bad way to eat a fresh Northwest crab.

It’s catching the crabs that causes us heartache, but there are ways.

It helps that they are almost every-where. Each time a floatplane settles onto saltwater and taxis into ports in Puget Sound, San Juan or Gulf Is-lands, the Strait of Georgia or the Dis-covery Islands in Desolation Sound, beneath the pontoons are Dungeness and sweet red rock crabs, clinging to the sea floor, looking for a pot to fill.

Trapping Dungys (and keeping inci-dental red rocks) is not rocket science, but there are rules.

Set crab pots over mud or sandy bot-toms. Crabs need to bury themselves from the surge of tide changes to avoid being swept away. Eel grass and kelp beds are perfect crab habitats: food, soft bottom, and cover. River mouths and bays are a close second.

There is no trappable water too deep for crabs (Dungys are common at 300 feet and found at 750 feet), only

Crabbing in Puget SoundA Pacific Northwest Pastime

By Terry W. Sheely


for crabbers limited by pulling rope lengths and muscle spasms. Red rock crabs, small but succulent and sweet, are shallow creatures, and the closer to shore you trap the better odds that you’ll sweep up a few red rocks.

For the summer season, most Dungy pots trap well at 80 to 180 feet and, by fall, add enough rope and drop past 200 feet to find crabs that have survived the summer. Put pots to work an hour either side of slack, es-pecially high slack, when crabs are on the hunt.

As for bait: forget the old gospel of “smell-bads.” Use fresh, oily meat.

Crabs track food by scent, and the stronger and fresher the scent, the better the trapping. Crab expert and seafood guidebook author J. D. Wade recommends baits in this order: clam meat, filleted fish carcasses, chicken, turkey and beef. Eastern soft shell and horse clams are good. Razor clams are

best, but true seafood junkies would rather eat razor clams than bait with them.

While researching commercial baits, Wade found “the absolutely best con-coction” consists of equal parts fresh ground salmon (or bottom fish), and ground chicken necks and backs.

I add an absorbent rag thoroughly soaked in herring oil, which is avail-able at fishing tackle stores. The scent leaches a long, wide trail. Clams should be smashed, shell and all, to release maximum scent.

A lot of energy is wasted debating the best shape for crab pots. Round-trap proponents invariably argue that crabs will work along the edge of a pot – and keep right on going when they hit a corner. Square-pot defenders—and I am one—scoff at such nonsense and point out that crabs don’t survive by leaving food on the table, and that commercial crabbers, especially in

Alaskan waters, do well enough with square pots to make a decent living (and popular tv shows).

In harbors and shallow bays, off docks and moored boats, inexpensive collapsible crab rings that lay flat to the bottom are excellent tools and easy to pack. Unlike rigid traps with one-way entrance doors, crabs can crawl into rings from 360 degrees. The differ-ence is that traps, suspended by ropes to buoys, should be left unchecked for hours while the scent trail tolls dinner. Rings and star traps, however, need to be pulled every 15 minutes to check the bait and trap the crabs that have crawled to the feast. Left unchecked too long, the crabs will lick the bait container clean and simply walk away. A tip: when trapping from a dock, lower the trap straight down resting it near the pilings. Crabs cuddle into the cover offered by pilings.

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cook it fresh, on the beach if possible, in a cauldron of boiling sea water. When I must pack crab inland I prefer to pack out a few buckets (sealed) of saltwater for the cooking.

Cooked in freshwater the meat goes bland and robs the diner of a delecta-ble experience. When freshwater is the only option, salt it by adding one cup of rock salt per gallon of water. Sweet-en the pot with crushed garlic, Italian seasoning or any one of numerous crab seasonings on the market.

If you intend to freeze the catch for later, immediately dump the boiled en-trée into ice water stopping the cook-ing action.

I prefer to eat my crabs fresh and hot. Bring sea water to a rolling boil and drop in the crabs (after washing the shells of muck and goo). When the cauldron re-boils let it work on the meat for 15 to 20 minutes.

Pop ‘em out, crack the shells, clean out the gills, separate the pieces, roll up your sleeves, melt the butter, open the beer and go for it. There are no table rules for fresh crabs on the beach.

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Plan to Attend the 2nd Annual

Stories Of The Pacific Rim3 days of award winning documentary films about the diverse

cultures and environments we all share

Getting here is 1/2 the fun!! www.kenmoreair.com

www.visitsanjuans.com www.wsdot.com/ferries

Entertain Inspire Enlighten


Fishing Gear Organizers Save Time & SpaceBy Todd Martin

Fishing is always fun, but fishing in a well organized, tidy boat is even better. If you break off a

fish, and need a new leader and bait set-up quickly, can you find them? Are you getting frustrated with spend-ing more time re-rigging than actually fishing? When the bite is on, keeping bait, lures and pliers handy for quick gear changes when necessary is vital..

Fishing-tackle storage and unclut-tered deck space on any boat is always at a premium. To respond to these basic angling requirements, two com-panies have recently brought some in-novative products to market. Both of these ergonomic mini workstations help save deck space, keep hooks off the floor of the boat and make you a more efficient, organized angler.

Scotty Products (www.scotty.com) is based out of Sidney, British Columbia and their name is synonymous with fishing success. They have developed the Scotty Bait Board. This handy cut-ting-board style workstation starts out


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as a basic platform but can be custom-ized with numerous accessories to be whatever you need it to be. Keep it as a basic bait-prep station and tool orga-nizer, or add optional attachments to mount extension arms, drink holders, and camera mounts. It’s a completely customizable platform. It fits into all existing Scotty mounts and is available wherever you buy fishing gear.

Another well-designed gear organiz-er is the Bait Buoy from the Hookum Good Company (www.hookumgood.com) located in Yakima, Washington. It’s is a little different; instead of start-ing with a flat workspace, it comes with a soft foam leader-wheel. These leader wheels rotate and are meant to hold pre-tied leader set-ups. The Bait Buoy comes with three round open-ings at the top that are designed for holding larger tools or bottles of scent attractant. It also has numerous small-er openings on the outside for lures, hook sharpeners, and the like. The Bait Buoy will fit several companies’ mounting bases, including Scotty, if you purchase the proper adaptor. You can also customize it by changing to different sizes of leader wheels for more storage capacity.

Both of these multi-purpose gear or-ganizers are made from weather-proof, rigid, ABS plastic for years of reliable use. I own both of these organizer stations and use them differently, de-pending on where I am fishing. I find the Scotty Bait Board more useful as a bait-cutting station or when I want to add different quick-mount adaptors.

and The Bait Buoy more suitable on lakes and rivers when I need to keep lures, smaller tools and pre-tied leader rigs handy. How and where you fish will determine which is best for you. Both do what they were designed for -- help you get your lines back in the wa-ter faster and be more efficient when fishing. Both mount very quickly and easily to almost any boat.

Give one or both of these ergonomic space-savers a try. They are great new products that make your time on the water more productive.


Destinations

If you’re longing for an island retreat that includes a big dose of nature, lux-urious accommodations and creative dining -- The Inn at Langley is your destination. Located on the southern end of Whidbey Island in the charm-ing waterfront town of Langley, it con-tinues to shine.

Once a blackberry patch, the inn has expanded since the late Paul Schell (a former Seattle mayor) and his wife Pam opened it in 1989. Today its 28 guest rooms, suites and cottages all feature fireplaces (most of them wood burning), oversized jetted tubs and porch-style balconies. With 180-de-gree views overlooking Saratoga Pas-sage, that means sunrises over the Cas-cades in the morning and sunsets to the west in the evening.

The Inn at Langley, Whidbey Island, WA By Sue Frause

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In springtime, gray whales visit Langley, feeding off the sand shrimp as they make their annual journey from Mexico to Alaska. The nearby Whale Bell Park has a bell that’s rung when an orca or gray whale is spotted, and the newly opened Langley Whale Center celebrates the lives of gray whales, or-cas and other marine mammals of the Salish Sea.

Overnight accommodations at the inn include a complimentary break-fast served in the dining room. Enjoy house-made scones, muffins, granola and quiche, along with yogurt and fresh fruit – and locally roasted coffee from Useless Bay Coffee Company. The dining room, with its two-sided river rock fireplace and open kitchen, is also the setting for Chef Matt Costel-

lo’s much-celebrated dinners. Served Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings throughout the year, the multi-course meals are a highlight of a stay at the inn. Costello, a James Beard Founda-tion Award nominee in 2012, likes keeping things local in his kitchen. He sources products from Whidbey Island farmers and food producers, plus uses produce he and his wife grow on their five acres just outside of town.

Set aside several hours for dinner at The Inn at Langley. There’s no rush or hurry; it’s fresh cuisine prepared and served with care, one dish at a time. The menu is seasonal, and a six-course dinner in autumn might feature a Snow Creek oyster with cucum-ber caviar pearls, lobster mushroom panna cotta with celery-root puree,


roasted Alaskan black cod with Rock-well beans and local mussels, clove and pepper-dusted duck breast with sweet corn polenta and chanterelles, whipped Mt. Townsend Camembert with vanilla and beets, and “peanut butter and jelly” – Concord-grape sor-bet with caramelized brioche and pea-nut anglaise. Each course is comple-mented by the inn’s cellar that features an extensive list of complex wines.

The Inn at Langley’s newly reno-vated spa, accessed through the board-walk along the lower level of the inn,

is a place for relaxation and rejuvena-tion. “Where the forest meets the sea” is the spa’s tagline, and so it is. The spa menu includes massage therapies, skin care treatments and special body treat-ments -- SeaFlora and Ila are the fea-tured products. There’s a special cou-ples massage room (in-room massage is also available) and a complimentary sauna. A customized four-day guided wellness retreat includes overnight ac-commodations and spa treatments tai-lored for each guest.

The Inn at Langley400 First Street

Langley, WA 98260360.221.3033

www.innatlangley.com


Although the only seaplane service into Gig Harbor is by charter, it’s an-other option for those who come to stay at the inn. Sixty feet of dock space makes arriving by boat a more com-mon occurrence. Some summer guests bring their ski boats, which they can drop in the water, then tie up at the inn’s dock.

The Waterfront Inn has several sit-on-top kayaks available for its guests, and kayaks, stand-up-paddleboards, daysailers and powerboats are available for hire nearby. You can bring your own bike, or rent one in Gig Harbor.

Each of the inn’s seven rooms has a private entrance and its own bathroom; all but one have jetted tubs. The rooms that feature river-rock fireplaces are particularly popular with guests who stay during the fall and winter months.

Two upstairs rooms share a meeting area well suited for use by small busi-nesses, or visiting interviewers. The Waterfront Inn’s wi-fi is complimen-

Perched on the northern end of bay in Gig Harbor, Washington is the Wa-terfront Inn. And sitting out over the water of Gig Harbor Bay you’ll prob-ably find many of the inn’s guests.

Along with character, charm and modern conveniences, one of the most appealing features of the Waterfront Inn is the 1,500 square-foot deck that extends out over the bay. Adirondack chairs and wicker furniture immedi-ately beckon to guests as they begin exploring the grounds. Part of the deck is steel grate, which adds to the over-water experience, particularly at high tide.

According to its owners, the inn is one of only two waterfront accom-modations between Gig Harbor and Seattle, which is about 45 miles to the north. You can get there from the Emerald City by crossing the Tacoma Narrows Bridge – if you’re not at the wheel, be sure to take in the view! – or via the Seattle-Bremerton ferry.

Waterfront Inn, Gig Harbor, WA By Russ Young

tary, fast and reliable. Oh -- and you’ll find fresh-ground coffee in your room, not those ubiquitious coffee-and-filter-in-one packets.

There are a wide variety of dining options within a short walk of the inn, including Anthony’s Homeport and Morso, a delightful wine bar/restau-rant. And many people – this traveler included -- would say that no visit to Gig Harbor is complete without drop-ping into the iconic Tides Tavern.

There is identical convenience and variety when it comes to shopping. One of the truly unique stores in town is Wild Birds Unlimited, that has ev-erything you could imagine – and many you might not – for feeding birds.

Surprisingly -- or perhaps not, after you sit on the deck for a while – the inn is a popular destination for Gig Harbor residents, particularly those who don’t live near the bay and want to experience and enjoy it. As they


spend time on, or over, the water, they’re often treated to the sight of seals, river otters, eagles and a variety of waterfowl.

Gig Harbor is also a great starting point for visiting other western Wash-ington destinations, including Mt. Rainier, Olympic National Park and Port Townsend.

The inn’s owners, Janis and Steve Denton, recognized the potential for the 1918 fisherman’s home – “it was a complete dump,” she says -- as an inn when they purchased it in 2001. After a year of work, which included jacking up the building and adding three waterfront rooms below, they opened for business. (Home renova-tion is nothing new for the Dentons; Janis says, “We don’t buy them nice, we make them nice.”) The original net-shed gave way to a new dock and the over-water deck.

It might be hard to find a more nau-tically minded couple than Steve and Janis. Former boat dealers and avid stand-up paddleboarders, they spend much of the year living aboard their 42-foot catamaran in San Diego. They also have a 83-foot schooner – “Amaz-ing Grace” – that is used primarily for a non-profit youth program they founded. They once spent a year sail-ing the east coast of the U.S. and the Caribbean with their two children; more recently, they spent five months sailing between Baja California and British Columbia.

And should you happen to visit while the Dentons are at the inn, you’ll likely be greeted by “Gracie,” a spunky Maltipoo who’s spent more of her life on boats than on land. If you’re a dog lover, you may be tempted to take her home with you – but better yet, stay longer at the Waterfron Inn and enjoy her company!

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A stay at the Pan Pacific Seattle makes it abundantly clear what the rest of North, South and Central America is missing out on.

Located in the city’s South Lake Union neighborhood, the hotel is one of the anchors of the vibrant and rap-idly growing area. It’s only minutes away from seaplane terminal, moorage at a variety of marinas and downtown Seattle. (The hotel’s complementary car service can deliver you to any on those between 6:30 a.m. and 10 p.m.)

With 153 rooms, including 30 suites, the Pan Pacific prides itself on combining a high level of luxury with an impressive level of sustainability. It is only one of two properties in the U.S. to be “Green Globe” certified on more than 270 criteria. They support both the global “Clean the World” program and a local YWCA by recy-cling unused soap and other personal amenities.

Then there are the beds; quite liter-ally fit for a queen or king. The Hyp-nos mattresses are made by the offi-cial bedmaker for the British Royal Family, Covered with quality linens and comforter, it’s likely that you will wake up feeling absolutely regal.

Each room has a European-style soaking tub, screened off by shoji-style screens that can be opened for a chat with a companion, watching TV, or enjoying views of downtown Seattle, Lake Union and/or the Space Needle.

Only eight years old, the entire property was completely refreshed this year.

If your stay is more for business than pleasure – which is not to say you can’t relax and enjoy all that the hotel has to offer – there is free wi-fi that is fast and reliable. Anyone who chooses to work from their room will appreciate the Herman Miller Aeron desk chair. For conducting business on a larger scale, there are seven meet-

Pan Pacific Hotel Seattle, Seattle, WA By Russ Young

If anyone has compiled a list of things you’ll find nowhere in the Western Hemisphere outside of the Pacific Northwest, this writer suspects they did not know that Pan Pacific Hotels should be included.

Well established as a luxury brand in several Asian countries, the only Pan Pacific properties located between the Prime Meridian and the International Date Line are in Vancouver, Whistler (where there are two) and Seattle.


ing rooms, which can be configured to accommodate anywhere between 14 and 200 attendees.

A short stroll through the lobby delivers you to Chef John Howie’s well-renowned Seastar Restaurant and Raw Bar. In the mood for more casual dining? The hotel’s lobby bar, aptly named The Bar, features menu items from Seastar, and is open for breakfast. And Tutta Bella, located next door on the hotel’s plaza, is known throughout the Seattle area for its Neopolitan-style pizzas, cooked in wood-fired brick ov-ens.

Directly across the plaza from the hotel is the 24x7 fitness center, which is more than 4,200 square feet and includes LifeFitness equipment, his-and-hers saunas and a beautiful tile hydropool. It adjoins the Vida Spa, which not only offers a wide variety of treatments in its 17 rooms, but also provides in-room services.

The plaza is also home to a variety of businesses, ranging from the obliga-tory Starbucks and a FedEx Office, to the Whole Foods Market and a dog bakery. (I hasten to point out that means they bake treats for dogs.)

At the time that hotel opened in 2006, the development of South Lake Union was still primarily notional, leading some guests to feel as if they were somewhat isolated from down-town. Thanks to the rapid growth that has since transpired, including the Se-attle Streetcar that connects the two, that’s now a moot point, as the two ar-eas are contiguous. So add “visionary” to the adjectives – such as “luxurious,” “comfortable” and “refreshing” – that describe the Pan Pacific Seattle.

Pan Pacific Hotel Seattle2125 Terry AvenueSeattle, WA 98121

206.264.8111www.panpacific.com/seattle


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Connecting People, Places, Adventure and Lifestyle…Meet some of the faces and characters of the Seaplane and Boat-ing Destinations around the Pacific Northwest. If you ever run into them along your travels be sure to stop and say hello!

WHO’S WHO in tHe PAcific nORtHWeSt

Occupation Operations manager, Tofino Air Lines Ltd.

Birthplace Montreal, Quebec

Hometown Cedar-by-the-Sea, BC

Favorite PNW Destination : Tofino, BC Best Boating & Fishing Destination Clayoquot Sound

Favorite Eatery Tacofino

Best Meal Brunch at The Wickanin-nish Inn

Favorite Read The Voyage of the Northern Magic: a Family Odyssey by Diane Stuemer Hobbies Camping, kayaking, hiking, reading and eating really good food

Most memorable experience on the waters of the PNW A couple of years ago we had a family reunion at our home in Cedar. It was Thanksgiving, and relatives came from Ontario as well as here in BC. The weather was stellar. Seven of us went out kayaking around the Southern Gulf Islands, and had a gourmet picnic on Link Island. The day was just perfect. It was so amazing to be able to share such a great experience with my family, especially the ones from back east. It was definitely BC at its best!

Occupation Director of marketing and media development at HARBORS

Birthplace Fort Belvoir, VA

Hometown Medina, WA Favorite PNW Destination Henry Island, WA Best Boating & Fishing Destination Roche Harbor, San Juan Island – Open Bay off Henry Island

Favorite Eatery Lime Kiln Café – Roche Harbor Resort

Best Meal Oysters from Westcott Bay Sea Farms and fresh-caught crab cooked on the beach

Favorite Read Dan Brown series

Hobbies Boating, golfing, fishing, crabbing Most memorable experience on the waters of the PNW Whale watching encounters. We were the only boat on the water watching the “super moon” rising and suddenly a pod of whales appeared. They almost seemed to be dancing under the moon-light. It was magical.

Occupation Director, Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival

Birthplace Minneapolis, MN

Hometown Port Townsend, WA Favorite PNW Destination The beaches at La Push, Quinault rainforest. Best Boating & Fishing Destination The entire PNW, Inside Passage and Alaska! Queen Charlotte islands stand out as incred-ible. Closer to home, the San Juans! I don’t really fish but love clamming on the local beaches!

Favorite Eatery Wow that’s hard -- I have so many! In Port Townsend, breakfast: The Blue Moose; lunch: Point Hudson Café; and dinner at Lanza’s.

Best Meal The wilted salad at Point Hudson Café … I absolutely love it.

Favorite Read Far too many to list. Hobbies I love sailing, especially in the tropics. Love camping, hiking, ski-ing, volleyball and softball. I don’t do any of them nearly enough!

Most memorable experience on the waters of the PNW The first time I sailed into the Puget Sound! I was on “Sea Angel,” an 88-foot Sparkman and Stevens ketch we had just sailed up from the Caribbean. That day was magical, it was so cold, but I stood out on the bow for hours. The smell of the pine trees was so wonderful, the beauty of the moun-tains and the water … it was, and still is, magnificent.


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Occupation Chief experience officer (CEO) Wanderlust Hospitality, Friday Harbor, WA

Birthplace Utica, NY

Hometown Clinton, NY

Favorite PNW Destination I’m lucky enough to live on a moun-tainside overlooking Victoria, BC and Haro Strait. Best Boating & Fishing Destination I haven’t fished much out west, but have enjoyed amazing fishing and boating adventures in Key West, FL.

Favorite Eatery Outside of my mother’s kitchen, Cask and Schooner and Duck Soup Inn on San Juan Island

Best Meal It’s a tossup between a fresh Dungeness crab cookout on the docks in Friday Harbor and a fish fry of our catch right on the beach in Florida.

Favorite Read Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Hobbies Glamping, camping, hik-ing, biking, kayaking, fishing, enjoying really good beer and better food and exploring new places.

Most memorable experience on the waters of the PNW Easily those that I enjoyed during my first visit ever to the Northwest. After an amazing July day in Seattle, we boarded our floatplane on Lake Union and took off for Friday Harbor. From push off to splashdown, I was totally blown away. I just couldn’t believe that such amazing remote and beautiful places could be so close by. My amaze-ment hasn’t waned yet; I doubt it will.

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Occupation Aerospace engineer, Boeing; seaplane pilot flight instructor, Rainier Flight Service

Birthplace Washington, DC

Hometown Seattle, WA

Favorite PNW Destination My favorite destination is home at the end of a day of flying. Best Boating & Fishing Destination I don’t fish so I can’t comment. But my favorite place to buy fish is City Fish in the Pike Place Market.

Favorite Eatery Home, on my deck overlooking Elliot Bay. When flying, it’s in my plane, floating in the middle of a mountain lake.

Best Meal Fresh salmon in the sum-mertime at home. But I also love Fred Meyer’s $1.79 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as an in-flight snack.

Favorite Read A few aviation ones I can recommend are: Flight of Passage, by Rinker Buck; West with the Night, by Beryl Markham; and Solo to Sydney, and Alone over the Tasman Sea, by Francis Chichester.

Hobbies Flying my Cessna 172XP floatplane. Hiking and backpacking used to be hobbies, now I just fly there!Is hanging out with my wife Mary is a hobby? I know I like doing it.

Most memorable experience on the waters of the PNW Flying under the convergence zone and popping out the other side, be it the San Juans or Seattle. Flying into a mountain lake, like Lake Isabel or Lake Cailligan, in fall or spring when the mountains are snow-covered is one of the joys of own-ing a floatplane.

Occupation Deputy director, Port of Edmonds, Edmonds Marina

Birthplace Seattle, WA

Hometown Juanita, WA

Favorite PNW Destination Ocean Beaches. Depoe Bay, Oregon is my favorite PNW get away. Best Boating & Fishing Destination Edmonds of course!

Favorite Eatery Chipotle

Best Meal Mom’s homemade enchi-ladas or Dad’s swedish meatballs.

Favorite Read anything inspirational Hobbies swimming, reading, cooking

Most memorable experience on the waters of the PNW There are many. But standing on the bridge of an aircraft carrier as it cruised into Elliott Bay was pretty awesome - also being on the deck as planes took off and landed, the tailhook catching the cable and feeling the rush of force from head to toe. Cruising into Seattle on the Norwegian Sky in the quiet and early dawn hours for the inaugural homeport ship visit May 7th, 2000 – a Seattle Cruise Ship business was born.


Things you need to know...

Seaplane/Floatplane

Stowing baggage Many operators do not permit carry-on baggage in the cabin because it can hurt someone if it isn’t well secured. If you can bring baggage on board, ask your pilot where and how to stow it safely.

Certain dangerous goods or hazardous materials are illegal on board a seaplane/floatplane. Do not bring any gases, corrosives, spray cans, flammable liquids, explosives (including ammunition), poisons, magnetic materials, etc., onto the plane without checking with your pilot.

Passenger Guide

Using your seat belt Make sure the seat belt fits tight around your hips, and wear it at all times. Always use the shoulder harness if there is one. Practice finding and releasing the latch with both hands and your eyes closed until you are sure you could do it in an emergency.

Knowing how to find and use exits Not all seaplanes/floatplanes are the same. Learn where to find, and how to use, all exits before takeoff. Ask the pilot if you can practice opening the exit(s) before engine start up.

Find the exit in relation to your left or right knee. If the exit is on your right while upright, it will still be on your right even if the seaplane/floatplane lands or comes to rest in another position. Taking the time to become familiar with the inside of the plane will help you find your way to an exit, even with your eyes closed.

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Knowing how to find and use life preservers Seaplanes/floatplanes are required to carry life preservers or personal flotation devices (PFD) for every person on board. Find yours! Your pilot should provide a demonstration on where to find it, how to remove it from stowage and its packaging, how to put it on, how to inflate it, and when. Ask your pilot if you should wear it during the flight. If so, wear it, but NEVER INFLATE IT WHILE IN THE AIRCRAFT.


Getting out safely! Underwater egress

In most water accidents, seaplanes/floatplanes come to rest upside down. The key to your survival is to stay aware of where to find the exit, and to get out of the aircraft and to the surface of the water as quickly as you can.

1. Stay calm— Think about what you are going to do when the initial shock of the impact passes.

2. Grab your life preserver/PFD— If time permits, put on, or at least, grab your life preserver or PFD. DO NOT INFLATE IT until after you exit the aircraft. Why? You cannot swim underwater with an inflated life preserver. You may get trapped.

3. Open the exit and grab hold— If sitting next to an exit, find and grab the exit handle in relation to your left or right knee. Open the exit. The exit may not open until the cabin is sufficiently flooded and the inside water pressure has equalized.

DO NOT release your seatbelt and shoulder harness until you are ready to exit. Why? You will begin to float upwards, making it easy to become confused and more difficult to get to the exit.

4. Release your seat belt/harness— Once the exit is open, and you know your exit path, keep a hold of a fixed part of the seaplane/floatplane and release your belt with the other hand.

5. Exit the aircraft— Move towards your nearest exit. If it is blocked or jammed, immediately go to the next nearest exit. Always exit by placing one hand on a fixed part of the aircraft, and not letting go before grabbing another fixed part (hand over hand). Pull yourself through the exit.

Do not let go until you are out. Resist the urge to kick, as you may get caught in loose wires or debris, or you might kick a person exiting right behind you. If you get stuck, back up, twist your body 90 degrees, and then exit.

6. Get to the surface— Once you have exited the seaplane/floatplane, follow the bubbles to the surface. If you cannot, inflate your life preserver as a last resort. Exhale slowly as you rise.

7. Inflate your life preserver— Only inflate it when you are clear of the wreckage. Why? Life preservers can easily get caught on wreckage, block an exit or prevent someone else from exiting.

Passenger Briefing Checklist

• Baggage limits

• Where baggage is stowed

• How the seat belts work

• How to secure seat backs and tray tables

• How to know where you are in the plane, no matter its position

• Where to find and how to use exits

• Where to find the emergency locator transmitter (ELT), survival kit, first aid kit, fire extinguisher, etc.

• Rules about using electronic devices

• Where to find and how to use life preservers

• Rules about smoking

• Exiting underwater (underwater egress)


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