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	Guemes Island: This unspoiled San Juan island is a laid-back retreat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Guemes Island is one of the least known of the inhabited San Juan Islands, a great place to go if you are, say, a fugitive from technology or want to isolate yourself from the race-pace of civilization.
		Guemes (pronounced GWEE-muhs or GWEY-muhs) is not San Juan Island, it is not Orcas Island, it is not a Rosario or a Roche Harbor, and it hasn't yet been bought stem to stern by some software gazillionaire.
		Guemes also is an excellent venue for what some consider an underrated activity: doing absolutely nothing.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /getaways/291418_guemes09.html (1773 words)

	Guemes Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Guemes Island is a small island in the southeastern part of the San Juan Islands chain in western Skagit County, Washington state, USA.
		Guemes Island is just north of the town of Anacortes, and is accessible via a short ferry ride.
		Although Guemes is in the centrist Skagit County, it is part of the San Juan Islands, most of which are in San Juan County, which gave John Kerry an overall similar margin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guemes_Island (607 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Sole Source Aquifer Designation of the Guemes Island Aquifer System; Skagit County, Washington
		Guemes Island is a small island in Puget Sound, located north of the City of Anacortes in the western part of Skagit County, Washington.
		The southeastern part of the island is hilly and composed of bedrock and fractured rock; the remainder is gently rolling and overlain by glacial drift.
		The aquifer system underlying the island is considered to be vulnerable to contamination due to the highly heterogeneous nature of the sand and gravels making up the aquifers, and the inconsistent confining nature of the surficial confining unit and the Whidbey confining unit.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-MEETINGS/1997/December/Day-01/m31273.htm (2474 words)

	Guemes Island, WA Daily SDAT Update
		Guemes Island had been warned that it would be some time before the county would have the funds to address Guemes Island’s issues, but the community felt development pressures on the eight-square-mile island with incredible coastline views were calling for a more immediate response.
		Harvesting that passion for the island’s rural nature set the agenda for Wednesday, as about 60 of the island’s 800 residents in five roundtables began sifting through their opinions and preferences, and sorting them into a concrete set of proposals for preserving their island way of life.
		And recently, the county informed the island that it won’t have the funds to support the island’s “sub-area planning” process as part of the county’s new comprehensive land-use plan for the foreseeable future.
	www.aia.org /print_template.cfm?pagename=liv_sdat_guemes (3677 words)

	Island Adventures Orca Whale Watching Tours in the San Juan Islands
		Fidalgo Island is connected to the mainland by bridges on Highway 20 and the Rainbow Bridge in LaConner.
		4- Guemes Island is an extension of Anacortes with approximately 500 year-round residents.
		While on the island one of the men, Lieutenant William Broughton, thought the island should be named after the cypress trees he saw everywhere.
	www.island-adventures.com /privatecharters.cfm (3015 words)

	History of Samish Island
		The Indian encampment at Samish Island was located at Scott's Point on Alice Bay, and consisted of a number of crudely constructed huts made of split cedar slabs.
		Ten families on the island had 26 children of school age, but the average daily attendance was 12.
		Samish Island had a school, but it was just open three months in fall and three in spring, and one teacher juggled lessons for eight grades.
	www.samishisland.net /history.htm (3743 words)

	Guemes Island Home Inspections by Pacific Crest Inspections
		We are familiar with the properties on Guemes Island and the potential issues that come with owning a home on the island.
		To access Guemes Island there is a county ferry that departs from 6th and I Avenue in downtown Anacortes.
		The median age in Guemes Island is 44.22 and the average household size in Guemes Island is 2.38.
	paccrestinspections.com /guemes_island.htm (495 words)

	Lopez Island History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		GUEMES ISLAND and nearby PADILLA BAY were other uses of the viceroy's name that have hung around on the charts while others have disappeared.
		ELIZA ISLAND was later named for Francisco Eliza and one of his officers, Salvadore Fidalgo, gained his place in the sun on FIDALGO ISLAND.
		That bit of the terminology was added on by the Spanish explorers who named the islands, adding it on to make the honor to their peerless leader that much more intense.
	www.interisland.net /abi/sh.html (1256 words)

	Nancy Vogel Guemes Real Estate, Guemes Island Specialist, San Juan Islands, Washington
		Guemes Island sits in the San Juan Island archipelago immediately north of the city of Anacortes.
		Access to Guemes Island is from the Guemes Ferry landing located at 6th and I Street in downtown Anacortes.
		Guemes Island promises its residents a quieter, gentler existence.
	www.guemesrealestate.com /Guemes.html (1044 words)

	Guemes Island Resort
		Guemes Island is in the southeastern part of the San Juan Islands.
		Guemes Island retains a quiet, pastoral and picturesque character.
		Located on the northern tip of the island, our 17 acre beachfront resort is surrounded by forest with a panoramic view of Lummi, Vendovi, Jack, Eliza and Samish Islands and of Mount Baker.
	www.guemesislandresort.com (353 words)

	AIArchitect, July 7, 2006 - Guemes Island Reaches Far for AIA Sustainable Design
		Guemes Island in far northwestern Washington State is the kind of place where people stop in the roadway to chat with a neighbor from the other side of the island they haven’t seen for a week or so.
		Steve Cox, the county’s director of the Guemes Island Ferry, had declined to meet with the SDAT team during their scoping visit in the spring because he was so weary of the conflict with the islanders.
		But for the SDAT charrette, county officials, including Cox, returned to the island, and were impressed enough to not only pledge to come back to the table to talk over the issues, but also to ask for SDAT help with other sub-area plans within the county.
	www.aia.org /aiarchitect/thisweek06/0707/0707sdat.cfm (1403 words)

	SKAGIT VALLEY HERALD.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The purser for the Guemes Island ferry waves a car forward so she can sell a ticket while a ticket-taker waits at the Guemes Island ferry dock Tuesday.
		The two-person ticketing arrangement, which costs the county about $130,000 a year, is just one part of a rising tide of expenses on the Guemes Island ferry, which will probably lead to fare increases next month.
		Those opposed to the extension of hours say it would mean a change to the island's quiet character and put a strain on the aquifer.
	www.skagitvalleyherald.com /articles/2005/05/18/news/news99.txt (751 words)

	Anacortes.org: Anacortes, A Natural Destination
		The island’s status in the story of the white man’s settlement of this region is told in part in "History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties," a book compiled by the Interstate Publishing Company at the turn of the century:
		By the early Seventies, settlement on the island was permanent.
		The Samish lived mainly on Samish, Guemes and northern Fidalgo islands, the Swinomish on southern Fidalgo Island, northern Whidbey Island and part of the Skagit River delta.
	www.anacortes.org /history.cfm (1584 words)

	SKAGIT VALLEY HERALD.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		GUEMES ISLAND — It wasn't the tortoise against the hare.
		The race matched Berg, swimming the mile from Jack Island to Guemes Island, against Clausen, who pedaled the estimated nine miles around Guemes.
		Clausen pedaled around the island on a unicycle that boasts a 36-inch wheel, a well-padded seat, handle bars and a hand brake.
	www.skagitvalleyherald.com /articles/2004/07/08/recreation/rec01.txt (1112 words)

	Anacortes American - GoAnacortes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A group representing Guemes Island residents filed suit June 13 seeking to stop Skagit County from implementing an extension of ferry hours on the grounds that the change violates the county’s comprehensive plan and requires an environmental impact review.
		The Friends of Guemes Island filed suit in Snohomish County Superior Court seeking a writ of prohibition.
		Munks said that a review of aquifers, rural character, parks and everything else on the island is necessary as the area continues to grow in population.
	www.goanacortes.com /articles/2006/06/21/news/news01.txt (740 words)

	Guemes Island, WA Daily SDAT Update
		After the first few meetings in Guemes, county officials asked Gees if the AIA could help coordinate charrettes in other sub-areas in the county to help resolve log-jams in their planning processes as well, she said.
		In addition, the island should work with state and county officials to promote use of subsidized weatherization programs, investigate building a small scale biodiesel plant for island vehicles, and start a Guemes Energy Efficiency Club (GEEC) to help promote energy efficiency and alternative energy production among officials, businesses and residents.
		There is no natural gas on the island, propane for furnaces has to be trucked across to the island by ferry and there is no public transportation.
	www.aia.org /liv_sdat_guemes (3705 words)

	San Juan Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The San Juan Islands are a part of the San Juan Archipelago in the northwest corner of the continental United States.
		San Juan Islands are part of the U.S. state of Washington, while the Gulf Islands are part of the Canadian province of British Columbia.
		Politically, the bulk of the San Juan Islands make up San Juan County, Washington, though some of the furthest east of the islands are in the mainland counties of Whatcom and Skagit, most notably Lummi, Guemes, Fidalgo, and Cypress Islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Juan_Islands (754 words)

	Guemes Island, WA
		Guemes Island, WA EPA, Region 10: Guemes Island, WA Region 10: The Pacific Northwest
		EPA proposed the action after receiving a petition from the Guemes Island Property Owners Association who sought the designation to enhance conservation and protection of the island’s limited supply of ground water.
		EPA review of the petition found that the island’s aquifer system provides the sole source of drinking water to island residents, and there are no feasible alternative sources.
	yosemite.epa.gov /R10/WATER.NSF/b1edf256c3d7d444882567e600623096/6c845a1e3cff72bf882568b7004d0ca7?OpenDocument (250 words)

	Anacortes American - GoAnacortes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Friends of Guemes Island won the right to a hearing on the potential environmental impacts of late-night ferry runs when Snohomish County Superior Court Judge James Allendoerfer ruled Aug. 18 that the Washington State Environmental Policy Act must be applied to the extension of weeknight ferry hours.
		The hearing allows the Friends of Guemes Island to exhaust its administrative appeals while giving the county a chance to present more substantial evidence about the impact of later ferries on growth, Davis said.
		Despite a call to stay off late runs by the Friends of Guemes Island, this summer’s ridership is higher than the same period last year.
	www.goanacortes.com /articles/2006/08/30/news/news04.txt (502 words)

	welcome
		The islands can be spectacular this time of year as the trees are turning.
		Orcas are seen in the islands year-round, and anything is possible when the Island Explorer II leaves the dock.
		Many birds spend a lot of time on this rock and it is their evidence that gives this island its nickname, White Rock.
	www.island-adventures.com /print_fwlt.cfm (2732 words)

	Osmonics® Desalination System Brings Water To A Thirsty Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thirty-two families of Guemes Island were confronted with an aging well, one that was drawing salt water into its system.
		Because groundwater is not plentiful on these islands, residents must rely on water that falls from the sky and soaks into the ground, which is a limited supply.
		Also contributing to island water shortage is the influx of people moving to the island as permanent residents.
	www.osmonics.com /scripts/PressTmpl.asp?PressRelID=310 (364 words)

	SEI: Guemes Island Community Center, Guemes Island, WA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		All workshops will be based on Guemes Island, a ten minute car ferry from Anacortes, Washington.
		The last ferry run to and from Guemes Island during the week is at 6 PM.
		All workshop classroom sessions will start at the Guemes Island Community Center, which is about a half mile up Guemes Island Road from the ferry dock on the right.
	www.solarenergy.org /workshops/location.php?id=4 (762 words)

	Guemes Island - Definition, explanation
		Guemes Island is a small island in the southeastern part of the San Juan Islands chain in northwestern Washington state, USA.
		Guemes Island is close to the town of Anacortes, and is accessible to it via a short ferry ride.
		Guemes Island community site featuring information about upcoming events, the ferry, and life on the island.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/gu/guemes_island.php (135 words)

	Motor Boating Magazine - Features - Island Time
		The ferry was making its way across the Guemes Channel, carrying passengers from Anacortes to port to Guemes Island to starboard.
		As we continued westward out into Rosario Strait, we looked north and south and saw not a single vessel—recreational or otherwise—on a stretch of water that is usually reliable for routine sightings of working craft ranging from U.S. Navy ships to commercial fishermen to tugs with tows.
		With daytime high temperatures in the 70-degree range, the flybridge was operations and enjoyment central, but as the air gradually cooled, we shifted to the protection of the lower helm to warm up a bit.
	www.motorboating.com /motorboat/features/article/0,12696,595200,00.html (1569 words)

	Waterfront home on Guemes Island Vacation Rental in Washington
		Guemes Island is located just north of Anacortes, a 90 minute drive from Seattle and an 8-minute ferry ride from Anacortes on the Skagit County ferry that gets you to the island easily without the long ferry lines of most other islands.
		Seabluff Cottage is a secluded waterfront cottage on scenic Whidbey Island.
		Baby Island Lodge is the perfect setting for your family vacation.
	www.trails.com /rentals/propertyna.asp?vacation=010851_Oak+Harbor_Washington (471 words)

	SITE DESCRIPTION Guemes Island Road Marsh
		This 300-m-wide, 400-m-long area of pasture is developed on former fresh-to-brackish water marshes and lagoons on the northeast coast of Guemes Island.
		A 100-m-wide, 1-2-m-high, sandy beach berm with a road and houses along its distal edge separates the pasture from the beach.
		Nelson, A.R., Guemes Island Road Marsh, in Bucknam, R.C., compiler, 1999, Atlas of reconnaissance data from paleoseismic studies in the Puget Sound region, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Web Page, http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/pacnw/paleo/atlas.html.
	earthquake.usgs.gov /regional/pacnw/paleo/reports/guemes.htm (356 words)

	Welcome to LineTime.org
		The purpose of the Guemes Island Historical Society is to collect, catalogue, store display and preserve the oral histories, papers, photographs, artifacts and any other materials that document the history of the Island.
		The Almar was built on Puget Island in the Columbia River.
		Note that the vehicles (including the school bus) are facing backwards.That is because the Almar was not double-ended and had to turn around and back into the dock at the Anacortes side.
	www.linetime.org /gihs.cfm (322 words)

	San Juan Islands Vacation Rental
		A 10 minute ferry ride from Anacortes on a Skagit County Ferry gets you on and off the island easily without the long lines and ferry hassles of most other islands.
		You can also choose to stay island bound and take advantage of the amenities offered by our great little store where you can get great deli foods, breakfast and lunch, micro-brews on tap, rental movies, and a good wine selection.
		Guemes Island is the first of the many gorgeous islands of the San Juan Island chain where you and your family can enjoy beachcombing, hiking, boating, kayaking, fishing, whale watching, biking or just sit on one of the beautiful decks and take in the wildlife, bald eagles, views of Mount Baker and the surrounding islands.
	www.findrentals.com /11815.html (256 words)

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