Unique Experiences
Access to Forbidden Public Island - Tour of Protection Island
- Item Number
- 418
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
Item Description
Tour Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge in the Strait of Juan de Fuca with Marty Bluewater, the island’s last resident. You and your very best friend will be ferried from Cape George on Discovery Bay by Marty and given an exclusive tour and time to relax at his home overlooking the water Friday afternoon July 11th, 2014. WWTA Life Members past Board President Ben Bauermeister, Port Townsend author Erica Bauermeister, Seattle artist C.R. Waite, and former WWTA Executive Director Reed Waite join you for this rare opportunity - access to an island that is closed to the public. Get inside the forbidden 200-yard offshore zone and onto the island!
More info: Protection Island was named by explorer George Vancouver, who stepped ashore in 1792 and gushed about a landscape "as enchantingly beautiful as the most elegantly furnished pleasure grounds in Europe." The 364-acre Protection Island Refuge is where approximately 70 percent of the nesting seabird population of Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca nest. You'll find one of the largest nesting colonies (17,000 pairs) of rhinoceros auklets and the largest nesting colony of glaucous-winged gulls in Washington. The island contains one of the last 2 nesting colonies of tufted puffins in the Puget Sound area. About 1,000 harbor seals rest and pup here.
***Visitors may view the island from their boats at least 200 yards off shore, but the island itself is closed to public access - except for the lucky high bidder at the WWTA Auction.
Item Special Note
The Winning Bidder and his/her very bestest friend will rendezvous near Cape George on Discovery Bay at approximately 12:30 p.m. Friday July 11, 2014 and must bring PFDs for the boat trip and clothing appropriate for conditions and bird droppings. If wind/weather/acts of the Deity force cancellation of the tour that day, it'll take a long time to reschedule.
Donors: WWTA Life Members, the Waites and Bauermeisters
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