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BEVERLY CRICHFIELD, ANACORTES
-- Evelyn Adams says there isn't much she hasn't learned to like
about Fidalgo Island -- the tree-covered hills teeming with wildlife,
rocky shorelines and a picturesque downtown with old-fashioned
charm. click
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DARREN SAMUELSOHN, WESTPORT --
There's silence save for the dim hum of an idling boat motor.
Seventeen human beings shift position on the 40-foot Sea Duchess.
Cameras are poised, fingers nuzzling the shutter release. click
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JOHN DELEVA, FOR THE OLYMPIAN LONG BEACH -- As a kid, I couldn't look up anything in the encyclopedia without making a few stops along the way. En route to finding, say, Roosevelt, I'd stumble through Rhode Island, or Rio de Janeiro. That same process of diversion seems to happen whenever I visit the Long Beach peninsula: kites en route to cranberries, Jake the Alligator Man before Lewis and Clark. click here for full story |
THE OLYMPIAN Lilac
Days Celebration, April 22-May 2, Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens,
Woodland. (360) 225-8996. |
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CHESTER ALLEN, THE OLYMPIAN TUMWATER -- On a warm, golden Friday last fall, I pulled into Tumwater Falls Park to eat my lunch. click here for full story |
DARREN SAMUELSOHN, THE OLYMPIAN MOUNT ST. HELENS -- Doris Lodwig relishes the changes that this famous volcano has undergone every year since its 1980 eruption. click here for full story |
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JEFF BARNARD, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEASIDE, Ore. -- Tour buses stop by it, a greeting card once featured it, and a retired Salem barber reveres it. But look on most maps or ask most people what the Klootchy Creek Giant is, and you are likely to come up empty. click here for full story |
LAURA BLY, GANNETT NEWS SERVICE TOFINO, British Columbia -- To old-timers who've weathered decades of tempests along the wild side of Canada's Vancouver Island, the weekend squall is barely worth hauling out the oilskins and duck boots: a bout of light snow, mixed with hail. Spitting rain, punctuated by implausibly blue skies. Ten-foot seas with heavy southwest swells, and wind gusts topping 70 mph. click here for full story |
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DARREN SAMUELSOHN, THE OLYMPIAN WESTPORT -- Surf's up, and everybody's invited. Come beginners and experts. Come politicians, city folks, Canadians, teens and computer whizzes. click here for full story |
THE OLYMPIAN Here are some helpful numbers for planning a summer getaway in the Pacific Northwest: click here for full story |
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