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| ====== Jetty Island (Everett, WA) ====== | ====== Jetty Island (Everett, WA) ====== | ||
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| + | Wikipedia: "Jetty Island is a **man-made island and park** in the U.S. state of Washington, located **30 miles north of Seattle** in the Puget Sound, just off the Everett, Washington waterfront. The island is two miles long and half a mile wide, approximately 1,800 acres." Approx. **60 miles south of Bellingham**, WA. | ||
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| + | * **Wider Area Descriptions** | ||
| + | * **[[:puget_sound|]]** | ||
| + | * **[[:seattle|Seattle]]** | ||
| + | * **North of Jetty Island ** **[[:bellingham|Bellingham, etc.]]** | ||
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| - | <font inherit/Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>Jetty Island typically has mid/late afternoon wind in the summer almost every day during the months of April, May, June, July, and August. The simplest way to explain the wind pattern is: the Strait of Juan de Fuca is just west of Jetty, Whidbey, and Hat Islands and, almost every afternoon, winds get channeled through the Strait and spread out on the east side of the Puget Sound, Jetty (and the Seattle metro area) getting northwest winds. Those winds coming from the Juan de Fuca Strait are a product of several factors, but the two most important are daytime heating of the land surrounding the Strait and the fact that there is almost always higher pressure over the open ocean and lower pressure over inland Washington. Now air likes to flow from high to low pressure, so if there is higher pressure over the open Pacific than over Washington, the air filling the Strait will flow from west to east…right towards Jetty.</font> | + | <font inherit/Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>"**Jetty Island** typically has **mid/late afternoon wind** in the summer **almost every day** during the months of **April, May, June, July, and August**. The simplest way to explain the wind pattern is: the **Strait of Juan de Fuca is just west** of Jetty, Whidbey, and Hat Islands and, **almost every afternoon, winds get channeled through the Strait and spread out on the east side of the Puget Sound, Jetty (and the Seattle metro area) getting northwest winds**. Those winds coming from the Juan de Fuca Strait are a product of several factors, but the two most important are daytime heating of the land surrounding the Strait and the fact that there is almost always higher pressure over the open ocean and lower pressure over inland Washington. Now air likes to flow from high to low pressure, so if there is higher pressure over the open Pacific than over Washington, the air filling the Strait will flow from west to east…right towards Jetty.</font> |
| - | <font inherit/Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>It is typically blow dryer air which means the wind is not very gusty so wave size and quality is usually better that what you think it would be for high teen to low twenty wind speeds. Look for an air temperature differential of 10 degrees or more from Port Angeles/Pt Townsend to Everett. I usually **//look for an incoming tide to be above 5 feet//** which helps the wave size and minimizes the amount of walking in the mud flat at lower tides. There’s a trail across the island that is about 200 yards long that I take which is much quicker than paddling around and therefore leaves more time and energy for surfing. Sometimes there can be some time waiting for the wind to arrive. The iKitesurf app has a wind graph that shows the predicted wind which is usually accurate in the summer months.</font> | + | <font inherit/Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>It is typically blow dryer air which means the wind is **not very gusty so wave size and quality** is usually **better than what you think** it would be for high teen to low twenty wind speeds. Look for an air temperature differential of 10 degrees or more from Port Angeles/Pt Townsend to Everett. I usually **//look for an incoming tide to be above 5 feet//** which helps the wave size and minimizes the amount of walking in the mud flat at lower tides. There’s a trail across the island that is about 200 yards long that I take which is much quicker than paddling around and therefore leaves more time and energy for surfing. Sometimes there can be some time waiting for the wind to arrive. The iKitesurf app has a wind graph that shows the predicted wind which is usually accurate in the summer months.</font> |
| <font inherit/Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>The water in the summer get fairly warm because the mud flats along Jetty Island and in and around Port Gardener, Port Susan heat up the sand at low tide and then heat up the water as the tide floods in, and since Port Susan is a bay the water doesn’t get flushed out so stays warmer and the Snohomish river is at low flows in the Summer.</font> | <font inherit/Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;;inherit;;inherit>The water in the summer get fairly warm because the mud flats along Jetty Island and in and around Port Gardener, Port Susan heat up the sand at low tide and then heat up the water as the tide floods in, and since Port Susan is a bay the water doesn’t get flushed out so stays warmer and the Snohomish river is at low flows in the Summer.</font> | ||
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| The water in the summer get fairly warm because the mud flats along Jetty Island and in and around Port Gardener, Port Susan heat up the sand at low tide and then heat up the water as the tide floods in, and since Port Susan is a bay the water doesn’t get flush out so stays warmer and the Snohomish river is at low flows in the Summer. | The water in the summer get fairly warm because the mud flats along Jetty Island and in and around Port Gardener, Port Susan heat up the sand at low tide and then heat up the water as the tide floods in, and since Port Susan is a bay the water doesn’t get flush out so stays warmer and the Snohomish river is at low flows in the Summer. | ||
| - | In the late fall thru mid-spring when the Snohomish river is at high flows and during ebb tides combined with a NW, W or SW wind there are standing waves at the north end of Jetty Island between the Island and Priest Point. | + | In the late fall thru mid-spring when the Snohomish river is at high flows and during ebb tides combined with a NW, W or SW wind there are standing waves at the north end of Jetty Island between the Island and Priest Point." |
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| + | **Summer Outing at Jetty - typical except maybe more boat wakes than usual**</WRAP> | ||
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| - | Paddle across the channel to Jetty Island from the 10<sup>th</sup> Street boat ramp | + | Paddle across the channel to Jetty Island from the 10<sup>th</sup> Street boat ramp |
| - | + | - They have new bathrooms at Jetty Landing (Ferry Launch), Free Parking for the first two hours, $2.00 for an additional 2 hours, pay at the Kiosk | |
| - | - They have new bathrooms at Jetty Landing (Ferry Launch), Free Parking for the first two hours, $2.00 for an additional 2 hours, pay at the Kiosk | + | |
| - As you approach Jetty Island shore, look just south of the large diameter HDPE pipe log boom for the trail across the Island | - As you approach Jetty Island shore, look just south of the large diameter HDPE pipe log boom for the trail across the Island | ||
| - Just down the street from the Jetty landing they are finishing up construction on a Woods Coffee (James Schulz recommendation) - next to a West Marine supply store. | - Just down the street from the Jetty landing they are finishing up construction on a Woods Coffee (James Schulz recommendation) - next to a West Marine supply store. | ||
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| - | If you want to paddle in the deeper south part of the channel to avoid worry about low tide then the 10th Street launch is still the way to go. If the tide isn't low then you can walk straight across the island on the path described above. If the wind & waves tend to aim you southward during your laps, the south end of the island is narrow and an easy walk to get back into the channel to paddle back to 10th Street. | + | (Hat Island is about 2.5 miles directly west of Jetty Island, with Whidbey Island another 1+ miles to the west of Hat Island) |
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| + | If you want to paddle in the deeper south part of the channel to avoid worry about low tide then the 10th Street launch is still the way to go. If the tide isn't low then you can walk back after laps straight across Jetty Island on the path described above. If the wind & waves tend to aim you southward during your laps, the south end of the island is narrow and an easy walk to get back into the channel to paddle back to 10th Street. | ||
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| - | **Launch for deeper south water of Possession Sound** | + | **Launch for deeper south water of Possession Sound (red path is paddling around south end of Jetty Is.)** |
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