Peggy Long had announced that she & Kurt wanted to get a dive club going at Naknek Charters, so I asked her to how the first meeting went last week…she reports: Hi, Ian! We had a great meeting of the San Juan Islands Dive Club.  17 People showed up and the ideas flowed.  We talked  Continue Reading

You can tell it’s spring when the flowers come out & the weaher gets nice & the birds start singing…and the Market gets going, outside. Well, last year, the Market started to  have a Wednesday edition besides appearing on Saturdays, and that’s back in action now – here’s more from Lei Nakatani from Nootka Rose  Continue Reading

You can tell it’s spring when the flowers come out & the weaher gets nice & the birds start singing…and the Market gets going, outside. Well, last year, the Market started to  have a Wednesday edition besides appearing on Saturdays, and that’s back in action now – here’s more from Lei Nakatani from Nootka Rose  Continue Reading

Pay attention to poetry. Pay attention to music. Pay attention to paintings and sculptures and photo exhibits and ballets and plays. Don’t let all this go unnoticed. Your world is shouting out to you, revealing something intrinsically glorious about itself. Listen carefully. Love art, the way art loves Life. Erin Corra

Adrienne from the Library wanted you to know about this….hey, you were gonna read a lot this summer, anyway, right? Here’s more: On Wednesday, June 17th, Summer Reading Starts! Everyone can participate in Summer Reading! Adults can enter to win weekly drawings and get books from the Friends of the Library Treasure Cove – or  Continue Reading

People help out with Relay for Life for different reasons. Over the next few weeks, let’s hear from some of the folks who are doing the Relay this year. This week, here’s what John Boyd (Sponsorship Chair) has to say: I always thought that the Boy Scout motto of “be prepared” was an apt one.   Continue Reading

It was great to get out in the sun on Saturday with approximately seven million smiling kids at the PTA’s Carnival, behind the elementary school. There was face painting, fortune telling, dunk tanking, that bouncy thing the kids (and some mamas & papas) climb all over, food, and a lot of happy faces.

Folks were taking really long picnics at Lime Kiln State Park yesterday, hoping the resident whales would come along, but the orcas didn’t come by, and Bob Otis (who spends summers tracking their journeys & noting behavior patterns at the lighthouse) told me the orcas haven’t been around for a week or more. Transient killer  Continue Reading

Jim Maya caught a pigeon guillemot at dinner yesterday…here’s a bit more about the cute little black & white birds & their cute orange feet.

There’s a fellow named Scott (with Nola) who puts videos together he calls “Alaska Travelgrams”…. here’s the one he made as he & Nola flew in with Kenmore Air & visited the island with one of Susie’s Mopeds cars. Check it out –  nice footage (and music) from the air, and of Lime Kiln &  Continue Reading