Fallsview Canyon in Quilcene
July 9-11 Weekend Activities
Peninsula in for sizzling weekend of activities
PORT TOWNSEND -- A living-history encampment will be held at Old Fort Townsend State Park, four miles south of Port Townsend on Old Fort Townsend Road, at 9 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
The encampment allows visitors to step back through history and experience what it was like to be a solider in the 1800s.
Visitors will witness cannon blasts and rifle shooting.
The annual encampment is sponsored by Washington State Parks and Friends of Fort Townsend, and it is free and open to the public.
For information, phone Friends of Fort Townsend at 360-385-2998.
Flower hike set
QUILCENE -- The Washington Native Plant Society will hike Mount Townsend to view blooming wildflowers on Saturday.
Hikers will meet at the North Hood Canal Visitors Center, 295142 U.S. Highway 101, at 9 a.m.
It is peak season for meadows of wildflowers on the southern slopes of the mountain.
Hikers will walk up the Big Quilcene Trail No. 839, a 3.8-mile hike with a 3,000-foot elevation gain.
Participants should bring lunch, sturdy shoes and rain gear.
The hike is free and open to the public.
For more information or to RSVP, phone Sharon Schlentner at 360-379-9810.
Or e-mail sschlentner@waypoint.com.
Dust off the Crab Gear...Crab Season Starts July 1st @ 7 am!!!
CRAB: Dungeness and Red Rock Crab, all fishing methods;
Opens at 7:00 a.m. July 1, 2010. Open Wednesdays through Saturdays only through September 6, 2010, but open the entire Labor Day weekend (September 4 - 6).
Last Updated: June 30, 2010
NOTE: all fishing gear must be removed from the water
by one hour after sunset on the last day of any fishing period.
ShrimpFest in Brinnon - Memorial Day Weekend!!
By Jeff Chew
Peninsula Daily News
The annual Brinnon ShrimpFest -- which will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday -- lured upward of 9,000 people last year, and that was with the Hood Canal Bridge closed for construction, said vendor organizer Debbie Williams.
At 10 a.m. Saturday, the event that has been around since 1994 will open another Memorial Day weekend with Hood Canal spot shrimp on sale.
The fresh and tasty tails are expected to be gone before noon.
"I know we cleaned and processed about 1,200 pounds of shrimp," Williams said.
"We have about 700 containers to sell, a little less than last year, but it's the same price."
That's $10 a bag.
Once that runs out, containers of Taylor Shellfish Co. shrimp will be sold.
The event -- which is on the grassy part of Dosewallips State Park in Brinnon, east of U.S. Highway 101 and north of the Dosewallips River -- has grown popular with vendors, too, with up to 30 turned away this year for lack of space.
"We were full with 100 vendors in two months," Williams said.
Eleven vendors will offer food. The rest will sell arts and crafts.
Belt-sander races
Popular souped-up belt-sander races will heat up at 1 p.m. each day, with more than 20 entries from the region and Canada expected to zip in for the show.
The stage will light up with local music and entertainment and a Veterans of Foreign Wars beer garden will be featured for adults. There are pony rides and other fun for kids.
The tides are usually low enough during the weekend for easy harvest of clams and oysters on the public beaches at Dosewallips State Park near the festival (state Fish and Wildlife shellfish license required) and the weather is traditionally good, Williams said.
Williams said ShrimpFest T-shirts, mugs and shrimp necklaces go fast, too.
The festival is busiest on Saturday until 2 p.m., Williams said, with traffic sometimes backing up on U.S. Highway 101 and people having to park outside the state parkland lot and walking in.
Flaggers on the highway help guide traffic into the festival parking area.
A pancake breakfast is planned at 7 a.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Brinnon Community Center on Highway 101.
Proceeds from ShrimpFest 2009 will be donated to community projects.
Over the years, the proceeds have benefited the community through donations to the Brinnon School and the Brinnon Volunteer Ambulance & Firefighters Association, Brinnon and Quilcene community centers as well as many other projects.
FREE FISHING WEEKEND! JUNE 12 & 13
| WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE NEWS RELEASE 600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091 | |
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May 24, 2010
Contact: WDFW Fish Program, (360) 902-2700
Anglers can fish for free June 12-13
OLYMPIA - Each year, thousands of Washingtonians go fishing - legally - without a license. How? By taking advantage of Free Fishing Weekend, scheduled June 12-13.
During those two days, no license will be required to fish or gather shellfish in any waters open to fishing in Washington state. Also, no vehicle use permit will be required during Free Fishing Weekend to park at any of the 600 water-access sites maintained by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW).
In addition, anglers will not need a Two Pole Endorsement to fish with two poles on thousands of lakes statewide, nor will they need a Columbia River Salmon and Steelhead Endorsement, otherwise required to fish for salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River and its tributaries.
"Free Fishing Weekend is a great time to revive an old hobby or to introduce friends and family to fishing," said Craig Burley, fish division manager for WDFW. "Adults can introduce kids to fishing on a wide variety of waters around the state."
Anglers have been catching daily limits of trout at lakes for the past month, and many rivers will open to trout fishing June 5 throughout the state. Other options available on Free Fishing Weekend include:
- Hatchery chinook salmon in Washington's ocean waters.
- Lingcod on the coast and Puget Sound.
- Bass, crappie, perch and other warmwater fish biting in lakes throughout eastern Washington.
- Shad and sturgeon on the Columbia River.
- Spring chinook salmon on tributaries to the lower Columbia River.
- Hatchery steelhead on the mainstem Columbia River and on rivers on the Olympic Peninsula.
While no licenses are required on Free Fishing Weekend, other rules such as size limits, bag limits and closures will still be in effect. Anglers will also be required to complete a catch record card for any salmon, steelhead or sturgeon they catch.
Catch record cards and Fishing in Washington 2010/2011 sportfishing rules pamphlets are available free at hundreds of sporting goods stores and other license dealers throughout the state. See http://wdfw.wa.gov/licensing/vendors/ on the WDFW website to locate a license dealer.
The sportfishing rules pamphlet also is available on WDFW's website at http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulations.
Tall Ships coming to Port Townsend
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