Rising from the ashes of the remains of the San Francisco ferry Peralta in 1933, Black Ball Line’s new ferry would be an inspiration to all who saw her. Kalakala (pronounced kah-LOCK-ah-lah), is Chinook for flying bird, a name that would describe…

Humans have inhabited the San Juan Islands for at least 13,000 years. The first peoples didn’t appear to rely on fishing, rather they hunted land animals like deer. The Columbian black-tail deer are San Juan’s largest native land mammal, making them…

Indigenous peoples throughout the San Juan Islands and beyond relied on massive cedar canoes for their subsistence since time immemorial. Native craftsmen chose sections of cedar trees up to 60 feet long for their vessels. Cedar logs would always be…