There was no large body of water for EMMA RODRIGUEZ to experience where she grew up in North Central Mexico in the 1970s. But that changed in a big way when she came to the Seattle area…

As a self-described cowboy from southern Idaho sagebrush country, LES PURCE has never ceased to be amazed by Puget Sound…

Some of my most cherished childhood memories are of my mom telling me bedtime stories about working the night tide. She still holds the title “the legend of Oakland Bay” at Taylor Shellfish and our oldest clam crew members still tell tall tales about working with her. My mom has a lot of stories about working on the night tides—seeing whales, getting surprised by otters, getting caught in thunderstorms, rescuing octopi, connecting with her crewmates.

RALPH MUNRO’S hometown newspaper, the Bainbridge Island Review, said it with eloquent simplicity in a December 27, 2004, headline: “Orcas have a friend in Munro.”