I left my cabin in the drizzle and dark. Beyond a bluff on the Oregon coast, gulls hovered and wheeled, their cries riding the wind above the waves. I pedaled my bike past pools left behind when the ocean abandoned the land. Haystack Rock stood in the surf like a mountain risen from the sea. On its grassy slope, puffins …
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Jones Island Loop Located in the San Juan Archipelago, Jones Island is a place apart: rocky shores, sculpted cliffs, beautiful madrone forests, and impressive groves of weather-beaten Garry Oaks. From the dock on the northern shore of Jones Island, an ADA-accessible trail crosses through deep coastal forest to the southern shore and the delightfully named Raccoon Island Campground. From here, …
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Crunch. That’s not the sound I wanted to hear at the back of a dark sea cave underneath a basalt headland pummeled by ocean swell. As the stern of my kayak banged into the rock wall, I paddled forward, hard, as the next swell came through. Not hard enough. The wave pushed me against the cave wall. I pushed myself …
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