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Camping in the San Juan Islands

With recent snowfall and windy and rainy winter days, camping might not necessarily be on people’s minds! However, camping in the San Juan Islands is very popular and the campgrounds fill up quickly. Hence, the earlier you make reservations the …

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Parking Perils and Perks in Friday Harbor

Parking can be challenging but certainly not impossible in downtown Friday Harbor. We don’t have parking meters but we do have strictly enforced parking times. Our parking enforcement officer Matt is quite nice and he is very careful about doing …

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Planning a Labor Day Party

Labor Day weekend is the last big holiday of the summer and is a popular weekend for cookouts, weekend getaways and pool parties. To celebrate these last few days of summer, start planning a Labor Day party for your friends, …

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Traffic and Parking in Friday Harbor

You will see when you pull off of the ferry that Friday Harbor is a ‘main street” town without any parking lights, overpasses, or four lane highways. When traffic gets busy and the ferry needs to unload in the summertime, …

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An Island Wedding

The field had been mowed and the fragrant hay was rolled up into huge circular bales, wrapped in white plastic, and stacked out of the way. The gate to the field was open with several acres for cars to park. …

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The Gift of a Tourist

Roundabout the end of July, the people on San Juan Island can start getting, shall we say, a tad bit irritated with the tourist congestion. At our island, the ferry lets cars and people off in Friday Harbor, our main …

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