If not for the wind, it would've been a relatively quick paddle around Squaxin Island. The open water crossing from Boston Harbor to Squaxin was a little hairy, in part because the current was still flooding through Dana Passage. Smooth water along Peale Passage until I reached Pickering Passage where it was whitecaps and 3 foot windwaves. I'd have taken photos but didn't dare stop. Fortunately, a kingfisher encouraged me along for a good stretch of this paddle. I'm pleased that I felt completely comfortable in those conditions, with both my abilities and my new board. I ultimatley found the lee to the wind as I exited Squaxin Passage and rounded Hunter Point, which was a relief to my tired shoulders and back. This wasn't my first circumnavigation of Squaxin, but it's one I won't soon forget.
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| Tucksel Point |
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| Looking back over open water to Boston Harbor |
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| Calm Peale Passage |
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| Squaxin's Seafarm Cove |
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| Abandoned Trailer - Reclaimed by Nature |
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| Harstine Island Bridge over Pickering Passage |
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| Squaxin's Salmon Point |
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| Hope and Steamboat Islands |
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| Potlatch Point with Hope Island to the right |
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| Palela Bay |
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| Almost back - clouds over Cooper Point and Eld Inlet |
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