JAMESTOWN — Canoes will arrive at Jamestown Beach with the high tide today after completing the most recent leg of the three-week 2012 Canoe Journey.
Canoes from at least a dozen different tribes traveling both from the Pacific Northwest and Canada will stop at the historic beach to be welcomed by the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe.
High tide will take place at about 4:50 p.m. The earliest that canoes could begin to arrive at the historic beach is at 2 p.m. or 3 p.m.
Jamestown Beach is located south of Dungeness at 1272 Jamestown Road.
The canoes are expected to depart five to six hours earlier from Port Angeles’ Hollywood Beach near City Pier.
The Lower Elwha ÂKlallam have hosted the visiting tribes at the Elwha Tribal Center since their arrival Monday afternoon, celebrating with feasts, a youth basketball tournament, singing and dancing.
Partly sunny
The National Weather Service forecast partly sunny conditions, with a high near 65 degrees and winds from the north-northwest up to 13 mph.
The Jamestown S’Klallam will join the flotilla of canoes Thursday as the pullers make the trip to Port Townsend at Fort Worden State Park.
For those driving there, Fort Worden requires each vehicle on park property to display a Discover Pass.
One-day passes cost $10, and an annual pass is $30, plus fees, at area recreational license vendors where state fishing and hunting licenses are sold, or at www.discoverpass.wa.gov.
Port Townsend does not have a resident tribe, so the three tribes of the Klallam nation — the Lower Elwha, Jamestown and Port Gamble — will combine to host the pullers.
This year’s Canoe Journey will end with a formal landing in Olympia on July 29, followed by a weeklong potlatch at Squaxin Island from July 30 to Aug. 5.
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Reporter Arwyn Rice can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5070, or at arwyn.rice@peninsuladailynews.com.
