Last weekend I spent a rollicking “Girls’ Weekend” with seven other women in Port Townsend. We rented the Admiral’s House for one night for $500 during the Kinetic Boat Race weekend. We enjoyed gorgeous weather and had a total hoot staying in the wonderful, 100+-year-old officers’ home within easy walking distance to the beaches and […]
Washington State’s official flower is celebrated in Port Townsend at the Rhododendron Festival, May 12-17. Rhody Fest royalty are chosen, and the week includes a variety of events and activities including trike races, a Rhododendron flower show, pet parade, kiddie’s parade, bed races, Kiwanis fish fry, golf tournament, pancake breakfast, carnival and the Rhody Festival […]
Orcas are beloved around the world and the waters off the Olympic Peninsula are part of their home. This May Orca Tour 2014 is promoting awareness of local J, K and L Orca pods. The Whale Trail and other Olympic Peninsula partners have worked together to bring noted author and marine conservationist, Erich Hoyt, to Port […]
By Leslee Jaquette In 1841 when Capt. Charles Wilkes charted the South Sound, he must have been tired. Or, perhaps, he had simply run out of names? You see, Wilkes named Gig Harbor, Wash., after the type of longboat, a gig, he used to survey the small bay. These days, perfectly protected and perfectly beautiful […]
NEIGHBORHOODS & HISTORIC DISTRICTS Pike Place Market One of the oldest continuously-operated farmer’s markets in the U.S., Pike Place Market presides over a nine acre historic district in the heart of downtown Seattle. The market features fresh fish and produce stands, arts and crafts, ethnic groceries and gift stores, vintage clothing, antiques and collectibles, […]
