Canoe Journey Journal

Ongoing coverage of the 2011 canoe journey to Swinomish.

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Day five – Elwha to Sekiu

July 20th, 2010 at Tue, 20th, 2010 at 9:57 am by Tad Sooter

We awoke at 3 a.m. to find the wind blowing even harder than it had the evening before. After a brief meeting the Port Gamble S’Klallam skippers decided not to risk the strait.

About 12 canoes did leave Port Angeles that morning but many were forced back to the beach by the wind and tides. A few pressed ahead to Pillar Point.

A crew of S’Klallam youth paddled the Noo Kayet to a marina to be trailered and canoe was driven west to Sekiu, a town near Clallam Bay. Meanwhile the canoe family camp was moved to Hobuck Beach on Neah Bay, where it will remain for the next week.

Tad Sooter is the editor of the Kingston Community News and covers the north end of the Kitsap Peninsula for the North Kitsap Herald. Follow him on facebook and reach him by e-mail or at (360) 779-4464.

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