All Posts Written by "ken"
A day on the Black
When I was a kid, 11 or 12, maybe, I wanted nothing more than to be floating on a river. I’d read Tom Sawyer; I wanted to be Tom Sawyer, or maybe Huck Finn. I wanted a raft on a river, like the mighty Mississip’, no chores, no adults, just a fishing pole and a […]
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The feast day is in July…
Have you ever heard of Santa Rosalia? Don’t feel bad if you haven’t; it might actually be surprising if you had. La Santuzza, the little saint. It would be even more surprising if you knew of her connection to the Olympic Peninsula. Rosalia was the daughter of Duke Sinibaldo, Lord of the Quisquina and the […]
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An island unmasked
The Olympic Peninsula is an island. No joke. An island, according to my dog-eared and stained paperback dictionary, is a “tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent.” Down near Olympia there’s a small pond known as Black Lake. Black Lake has two outlets. One, a trickling […]
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Breaking Trail
Over the past 20 years or so, I have been fortunate to spend many hours and days on the Olympic Peninsula, one of the most beautiful and engaging spots on Earth. I have thought to myself on more than one occasion that, if I could only go to one place, if all my future explorations […]
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A story of sea kayaking and science on the rugged coast of Alaska. Coming – Spring 2014.
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