Hood Canal Winter Road-trip: Shelton, Cushman Powerhouse No. 2, & Skipper John's...for sale

Part 1 of 2

With winter in full swing in the Northwest, sunny winter days are hard to come by. Harder still are sunny winter days when you're off work. We saw one coming and decided to take a little mini-roadtrip around the Hood Canal. Below is the route we took - it was beautiful. We soaked up much needed vitamin D and scoped out quite a few future paddling and sailing destinations:) When I started putting the post together I decided I had too much for just one post so I broke it into two. Part 2 comes next!

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Shelton

First stop: Shelton to stretch the legs and look at a train...and some llamas.

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Cushman Powerhouse No. 2

Caught a peek of this on Google Earth before we left. It's the powerhouse from the nearby Cushman dam #2 (the second dam on the North Fork of the Skokomish River). Since the river is blocked in two places it creates two lakes: Lake Kokanee and Lake Cushman.

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Skipper John's...for sale

Dude. I told my wife she should totally buy this place. Down the road from the powerhouse and just before Hoodsport lies this little run down, for sale, fixer-upper. Does anyone out there have pics from Skipper John's heyday? Did she have a heyday? 

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Well, the mini Hood Canal road-trip is half over...stay tuned for our next post tomorrow with pics of Lake Cushman, Hama Hama, Pleasant Harbor, and Port Ludlow.
   ~Paul & 'Skipper Amber'   ETC