San Juan Natural History

  • Marine mammals

    Many first time visitors to the San Juan Island come to the see the Orca. Fascinating and spectacular they are only a small portion of the marine mammals that call Puget Sound home. My interest began with the porpoises that rolled by the sailboat as I went from island to island. Usually they were visible…

  • History of the natural – San Juan Islands

    Natural history isn’t the strongest search term to name a blog – yet I want to post a ton of material that doesn’t fit under any rubric better than that. I’m interested in the San Juan Islands. Their human history, their geological history as well as their ecology – botany – and zoology. Not to…

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