Experiences labelled with 'kayak pugetsound'
The San Juan Islands are a geological anomaly comprised of chunks of micro-continents, terranes that floated around the eastern Pacific 200 million years ago. As the Mid-Atlantic ridge enlarged, it pushed what is now the continent of North America westwards, where eventually there was a collision between these small terranes and the large Atlantic oceanic plate. The collision created the mighty Cascade Range, where volcanoes still smolder. As a result the San Juan Islands, which dot Puget Sound, are comprised of a weird and chaotic mix of limestone, mudstone chert, and scraps of oceanic crust. This geologic underpinning defines the characteristics of the islands; quirky, different, unique, and completely unlike the mainland. If the few inhabitants of the islands I got to know are at ...
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