JOYCE, Clallam County On a cloudy summer morning, a gray whale and her calf cruise around the small bay to the west of Tongue Point, spouting every few minutes, just a few dozen yards offshore. Two instructors with the Olympic Park Institute are at the Tongue Point tide pools with three families on the last day of a weeklong field course.
August 26, 2004
PORT ANGELES For a warm-up or postmortem to a tide-pooling trip, visit the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary's new Olympic Discovery Center here, next to the Victoria Ferry terminal.
The $430,000 center designed by Bainbridge Island-based BIOS, an aquarium and exhibit designer whose other projects include the Seattle Aquarium and the Oregon Coast Aquarium, is likely the slickest 800 square feet in Port Angeles. It opened last month.
August 26, 2004
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