(January , the third week of 2002; my Sequim, WA journal)

Sequim Valley Airport

The Sequim Valley has a small planes airport

With the departure of Horizon Airlines from Port Angeles, this area has lost a major carrier, and its stepping stone behind the security lines amassing at SEA-TAC. One brief but thorough travelers scan here allowed us to head off to our connecting flights without having to endure the long lines there. San Juan Airlines has stepped into the void left by Horizon, but it schedules flights to Boeing Field - okay for Seattle City-bound travellers, but those with connecting flights at SEA-TAC need to allow 2 1/2 hours security clearance there. San Juan will drive passengers to SEA-TAC from Boeing, but do allow enough time. There is also a charter service that flies, again to Boeing, from PA or Sequim.

Yes, The Sequim Valley has an airport. If you turn south off the Old Olympic Highway between Kitchen-Dick Rd and Carlsborg Rd you'll see it. It is a privately funded strip open to the public; (no tax dollars) and a labor of love by the pilots and their aircraft owners. There are tiedowns available, though there's a waiting list for hangar space.

The terminal building for the West Isle Air services is clean and comfortable, but closed.

West Isle Air, an Anacortes-based airline, now serving the Port Townsend and San Juans area with scheduled flights to Boeing Field in Seattle, has ended its Sequim air service. So now the airport is back to Private Pilots useage. September 11th put a damper on use of general airspace by private pilots, and they are now restricted from flying into certain parts of Puget Sound airspace.

The 99s painted the 'Sequim Valley' on the runway last year.

The pay phone booth at the airport comes in very handy for private pilots who choose to land in Sequim.
It's a delightful little airport.

Further down the road - quite a bit further on our Sunday Drive- we came across this green field of growing cabbages - a sign announced that this farmer was growing these cabbages for seed! Lots of rural life present in the fields of the area today - sheep, cows, llamas, a few horses, and an Australian Shepherd dog who planted himself in his driveway, daring anyone to try to enter... at least he was not a car -chaser.

A farmer is growing winter cabbages for seed!

The first winter rhody has flowered, in our neighbor's garden.

and we are growing the primroses in the kitchen window boxes just for winter color - winter pansies are due in the stores next week. If we put them in the garden they may get waterlogged. Again, this year a neighbor three houses down from us has a Very Early Rhododendron bush just showing color. Ours are still all in little bud stages.