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The log jam between Carrington Bay and Carrington Lagoon
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Jan Gemmel welding a stove, Carrington Bay
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Jim Palmer’s old dory on the beach at Carrington Bay
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Jan Gemmel standing in their first welding shop in Carrington Bay
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Al Murray’s cement power boat in front of the log jam at Carrington Bay
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Stove passing the “pancake test” – Jan Gemmel in the float house at Carrington Bay
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Jim Palmer (or maybe Frank Mathers?) in kitchen of the float house in Carrington Bay
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Family in a canoe in front of Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel's floathouse in Carrington Bay
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Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
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Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
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Family of treeplanters from Oregon (Frank & Fawn with their 2 kids) lived across the log jam in a tipi where Al & Linda had lived
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Jan Gemmel in the speed boat beside her float house in Carrington Bay, winter
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Looking past Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel’s float house to boats in Carrington Bay
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Al Murray’s cement power boat under a plastic structure in front of the log jam at Carrington Bay.
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Looking north from Green Mountain over Carrington Lagoon and Carrington Bay (tidal falls in between) across 5 miles of water to Read Island, with a slew of islands to the north.
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Lagoon in foreground, looking over log jam to Carrington Bay; Al Murray’s cement power boat under a classy plastic structure.
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Looking out the door of Jim & Jan’s float house; Alan Bent & Gail Johnson’s house (right), Jason & Kathy’s (left) on the east of Carrington Bay in the distance.
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Seagulls standing on ice in Carrington Lagoon, log jam in foreground
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Working on a stove in Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel’s welding shop in Carrington
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Looking into Carrington Lagoon from Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel’s float house.
Part Of
Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society fonds
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Item
Material Type
graphic material (electronic)
Date Range
1978-1985
Scope and Content
“Large numbers of sea birds overwinter in Carrington Lagoon & Bay. Nudibranchs spawn in lagoon as well as chum & coho (Spruce Creek). Herring run into the bay.”
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Jan Gemmel in their occasionally sub-tidal garden on Carrington Lagoon, Green Mountain behind
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Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel's float house at Carrington in winter; Jan standing in speed boat
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Looking north from the log jam at Carrington Lagoon, Jim Palmer & Jan Gemmel’s float house on left