Salish Sea

“What is the Salish Sea?” I was asked recently.

It is the beautiful and abundant waters of the Pacific Ocean that are protected from the open ocean by Vancouver Island in Canada and the Olympic Peninsula in the USA. It is the homeland of Coast Salish First Nation people.

This large waterway includes Puget Sound, the Strait of Georgia, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The cities of Vancouver and Seattle are here. It is surrounded by snow capped mountains and fed fresh water from mighty rivers and long fjords, some of which drain vast high icefields that are reminiscent of the great glacier of the last ice age.

It is a powerful seascape that is moving in all of its moods. I love the way it is celebrated in song by Pauline Le Bel on the CD, Voices in the Sound. And it is my home.

Please explore the region with this interactive satellite map. We like maps! This one can be a bit slow to load.

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If you have stumbled across this blog, and you think you will find out something about Bowen Island, Howe Sound (did you know that Howe Sound is North America’s southern-most true fjord?), the Salish Sea, or anything about my life and opinions — the kind of stuff you normally find at blogs — that was not what this site all is about when it began.

This is an online experiment to try out the WordPress software and to learn about blogging in general.

If you bother to read what is here, you will be able to follow my voyage of discovery. If you are as clueless about blogging as I was when I acquired this site, you may find the articles instructive.

Since blogs are presented in chronological order, what you will see first is the latest post. And that is the current end of the story. So to follow my progress, you need to go to the beginning. Use the calendar in the sidebar. The beginning was June 30, 2006.

If you are new to blogging, the navigation may be a bit confusing. Any time you are lost, click on the words, Salish Sea, in the header (top of page), to move to the top of the blog. Much of the navigation uses the sidebar with the calendar and navigation links (on the right). Most of those sidebar features are similar to other blogs, but exactly what is offered there is a decision made by the blogmaster.

Oh, one more thing. It is now the end of October and I am not sure that there is much more that I want to learn about blogging. So, there may not be many more entries. But, we will see, eh?

Another edit, now Dec. 2. Somehow this blog has grown to more entries than I imagined would appear when I started. It is becoming easier to add to it. If you are interested to find out who is the author of this blog, you are welcome to visit Robert’s web site. Do you have a web site or a blog? How about a link to this site? Thanks.

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