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STATE MARINE PARK GEMS

JAMES ISLAND STATE PARK

Information: -This is a 113-acre marine camping and moorage-park with --12, 335 feet of saltwater shoreline on Rosario Strait. .

Access: -Only by boat. West Cove has a dock with a 44-foot moorage --float . There are thirteen campsites, a picnic shelter, and-1.5 miles of --walking --trails. To protect wildlife, muck of the island is closed to public --access, except for designated recreational areas and trails.The western --cove, facing Decatur Island, has a dock and is more popular than the --eastern sideThe float is removed from October through March, to protect --it from winter storm damage. Five mooring buoys remain year round.

-Comments:---The island, shaped like a dog bone,features a beautiful --western view of the San Juan Islands from a high bluff along the loop --trail.-This island is a great place to observe the San Juans' prolific --wildlife. --

------Our grandkids, cruising the San Juan Islands with us, voted this State Marine Park as their favorite park.