![]() Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. ![]() The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Advertisement" category. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. More commonly seen are the Pacific Harbor Seals, California Sea Lions and the occasional porpoise. Orcas, Humpbacks and Gray Whales can be spotted swimming in the swift currents along Vashon island’s shores. Point Robinson is 1 of over 100+ sites up and down the west coast from British Columbia to California known as the Whale Trail.įounded in 2008, the Seattle based nonprofit Whale Trail Organization uses key whale viewing sites to help monitor and study the health of the sea and its inhabitants. The other views offered at the point, even more elusive, are the whales. Today will not be that day as the clouds persist, but that won’t stop me from chucking a few rocks. But on a clear day, the view to be had is Mount Rainier commanding the southeasterly skyline while the Cascades peak above the horizon like teeth on a saw. To the south, Browns Point and Commencement Bay are beyond that. Looking north from the lighthouse towards Seattle, Three Tree Point sticks out from the mainland on the channel’s east side and Vashon’s northeast shoreline runs up the west framing the view up through Admiralty Inlet. The only way on or off the Island is by sea or air, helping the island to keep its rural and somewhat mysterious to outsiders’ charm. Today, to visit Vashon island, you still must sail the same blue-gray waters described in Wilkes’ journals. The neighboring island was designated Maury Island in 1841 by Captain Charles Wilkes in honor of William Lewis Maury, retired naval veteran, friend and assistant to Wilkes during his world travels. Vancouver named the Island for his naval comrade Admiral James Vashon, once Captain of the infamous HMS Dreadnought. ![]() ![]() The area was surveyed and charted in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver on his initial exploration of the inland Pacific Northwest. Both islands are still referred to separately on most maps and in some local conversations around the island, but the general name of Vashon, which I’ll be using, or Vashon-Maury are also used.īoth islands have been inhabited for thousands of years by different cultures due to its prime access to fishing grounds and trade routes throughout the Salish Sea. In 1916 townsfolk decided to fill in a narrow gap in the muddy strait creating one island. Maury Island once sat opposite Vashon on a shallow channel off to the southeast. Puget Sound’s largest island, Vashon is really made up of two islands connected by an artificial land bridge.
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