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| 'Minus Tide' 24x24" oil pastel; Kathleen Faulkner |
I like to walk along the channel at low tide.
there is so much to see and hear and smell
The Swinomish Channel connects Skagit Bay, to the south, with Padilla Bay to the north. It separates Fidalgo Island from the mainland of Skagit County.
Eleven miles long, it was once a collection of shallow tidal sloughs, salt marshes and mudflats known as Swinomish Slough.
During the Depression, the Army Corps of Engineers used dredging and diking to make it a navigable channel. It is heavily used today by many types of vessels.
I consider it one of the necessary ingredients for mental health.
