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Sucia Island State Park
Sucia is almost the
most northerly island in the San Juan group. It offers several bays
for anchoring, and several camping areas. Echo Bay on the east side
offers docks and is popular with big boat sailors, but the
rendezvous is planned for the narrow strip of land separating Fox
Cove from Fossil Bay on the southwest. We will be using Fossil
Bay unless a strong south-easterly wind makes it uncomfortable
– it has the better beach for landing on. There are mooring buoys
and a dock as well, but these
cannot be reserved and may be full so be prepared to anchor if you
don’t want to beach your boat.
Here's a
website with aerial photos of Sucia
and environs -- Fossil Bay is shown in photo SNJ0970.
There are
campsites close to the beach, and we will
reserve the group site. The prettiest sites
face Fox Cove, but the Fossil beach and anchorage make it a better
choice for our small boats.
We'll have a fire in the evenings so bring along your
sticks and marshmallows. You’re not camping if you don’t have burned
sugar on your face! (First boat to arrive should grab the far
left campsite facing Fossil, the one in the trees - even if you
don't plan to camp, it is a great place to sit around the fire and
shoot the bull.)
Composting toilets are located handy to the campsites – these
are clean and virtually odour free.
There's good water on island but no garbage disposal, be prepared to take it home with you.
More information about Sucia can be seen at the
Washington
State Parks website.
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