Baby Island – The Life and Times of a Small Place
Whidbey Islander Paul Shapiro has created a contemplative piece about Baby Island – a very small place.
BABY ISLAND The Life And Times Of A Small Place from Paul Shapiro on Vimeo.
Whidbey Islander Paul Shapiro has created a contemplative piece about Baby Island – a very small place.
BABY ISLAND The Life And Times Of A Small Place from Paul Shapiro on Vimeo.
The Ferry Ride Just the ferry ride alone is worth the price of a ticket to Friday Harbor, even if you turn around and come right back home. We stayed though – a whole two nights – enough time to visit all our old favorite San Juan Island spots. Friday Harbor Friday Harbor was comfortably…
Diver, cinematographer, and marine biologist Florian Graner knows well what lays beneath the surface of the Salish Sea. Florian lives on Holmes Harbor, and dives regularly from the beach off of his Whidbey Island neighborhood. He also dives and films in many other parts of the world, and has worked on films such as The…
Getting to the water regularly is a world-wide passion My online friend Annabel, who lives far away in Australia but still somehow cares about water, told me I should write an essay on “7 reasons we all love to be beside the sea.” Intrigued by the idea, I started a list and found it’s not…
Time Off The moving aboard project isn’t all work and no play. On Saturday, after Tom put the finishing touches on his keel fairing job and I cleaned the bilge one more time (still trying to get rid of long term storage odors) we showered off the muck and gave ourselves a little time off…
Here on South Whidbey we have an unusual concentration of interesting people. Some celebrities, some who have made a mark – though not a name for themselves, most though, are regular folks who choose to do interesting things, in interesting ways, for curious reasons. I keep intending to do a series of profiles of some…
This spring Partners in Preservation aimed a promise of one million dollars at the Seattle area, with a competition for grants to restore, preserve and maintain historic structures in the Puget Sound region. When the list of candidates came out, Whidbey Islanders rallied around a favorite Coupeville landmark, the Ferry House, which stands on the…