Explore Hood Canal

Would love to see your photos and videos of Hood Canal, the Olympics, and the South Sound.

Please post them here.

Frank

oss-workshop-june-28th

This workshop will be offering the standard Operation and Maintenance education and also be providing the new technologies (Terry Hull) for the canal.  Many of the WA On-site Septic System Association (WOSSA) members will be demonstrating their systems.  We have Wilson Recycling coming to provide information on recycling and the NNN members recruiting volunteers.  If LHCWC wants a space for a display, you are certainly welcome.

Here are photos of rhododendrons — and if anyone should ask, the ideal drive is up Belfair-Tahuya Road to Elfendahl Pass, Elfendahl to Bear Creek-Dewatto Road, left on Dewatto-Holly Road, return via Tee Lake to Belfair-Tahuya Road. The upper Tahuya road is good too, but you have to double back to Belfair-Tahuya because North Shore doesn’t go through. There should be two or three really good rhody days left, but the hot weather is shortening the season. Best time most years is late May.

Thanks for the maps!

Carolyn Maddux

By Dedrick Allan 05/15/2009

Recreational shrimp fishers will get one more day to fish on Hood Canal. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) says Marine Area 12 will be open for shrimp fishing Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The four-day Hood Canal season was originally scheduled to close Wednesday but according to WDFW fish biologist Mark O’Toole, enough quota remains in the Canal to offer shrimpers some more time on the water. Since the opener, shrimpers have pulled in 57,500 pounds of prawns from Hood Canal. The 2009 quota for the area is 85,000 pounds.

By Dedrick Allan 04/30/2009

Forest Service Road 24 has been reopened after a winter closure. The closure was in place since last October, but now there is full access to the Staircase area of Olympic National Park. As a precautionary measure, Forest Service Road 24 was closed to motor vehicle traffic just beyond the Mount Rose subdivision. Since the 2006 Bear Gulch Fire, the Road has been closed during the winter months due to increased rock and debris fall.

A video by Mark Woytowich on the Hood Canal