reward for the extra time needed to
set the hook and the extra vigilance at
One of six mooring
night if the wind kicks up is a glorious
buoys in the “cove”
day of hiking. Literally miles of trails,
at Pelican Beach.
mostly former logging roads now
overgrown with daisies and foxglove,
are accessible from Foss Cove, Pelican
Beach, Eagle Harbor, and even the more
distant Cypress Head. This network
wanders the full length of the island,
through older second growth forest.
Only a few of the trails on the island
are marked, and more than once I’ve
needed a compass to keep my bearings.
The trail to Phoebe (Cypress) Lake is
a vigorous three miles or so, with an
elevation gain of 1400 feet; it’s easy to
take a wrong turn and never find it.
Duck Lake, easier to find, is a marsh
humming with dragonflies.
I sit still awhile and wait for the
shy wood ducks. Grasshoppers snap-
snap in the tall weeds. Later, catching
my breath after a 40-minute climb
to the top of Eagle Cliff, I look down current in Rosario Strait. Though there Migael Scherer is the author of
the toe-curling drop-off to Foss Cove, may be others with me, and certainly A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound and
watch barn swallows harvest insects on have been others before and after, for a The San Juan Islands and Back Under
the updrafts, gaze across the swirls of moment the island is mine. Sail: Recovering the Spirit of Adventure.
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