Hopping into a small watercraft and paddling across the Puget Sound might sound like madness to some Washingtonians, but it’s a fairly common and regular occurrence in our part of the world.
Indigenous tribes have been doing it for thousands of years, as well as the University of Puget Sound crew team. And Tacoma-born “Dune” author Frank Herbert once rowed from Tacoma to the San Juan Islands when he was 9 years old.
But how many people have paddled from Tacoma to Port Townsend in one straight shot?…