Greetings soon to be neighbor, My wife and I live in Gig Harbor. Great protected waterways paddlable all year long, including several watertrail campsites. It's 2.5 hours to Deception pass for thrill rides and the jump off for the San Juans. It's 90 minutes to Port Townsend for the awesome Juan De Fuca. Neah Bay is 3+ hours for open coastal, rock gardens, and a great surf training bay-Makah. It takes me 3 hours to get to the south edge of Vancouver, BC. If you have a folding kayak it's less than an hour to the airport and then 90 minutes direct to Ketchikan, AK. For Backpackers it's 90 minutes to either Rainier or the Olympics and the Cascades are accessible from anywhere along the I-5 corridor. Willapa Bay paddling is 2.5 hours and Westport or Pacific Beach surf paddling is 2 hours or a smidge over. In short, neither here nor there, but what the heck, it's home! Rob G *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri May 23 2003 - 06:09:18 PDT
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