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Lavendar Farm in Sequim, Washington. Sequim Bay is located just east of Sequim, Washington.
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Sequim, Washington
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Joe Rantz (1914 - 2007)
Fate took Joe Rantz from heartache to glory and from the small town of Sequim to the medal stand in Berlin. He overcame a rough start in life to help that U.W. squad to gold, then went on to a successful professional career as a chemical engineer at Boeing.
Rantz was the epitome of an underdog. Abandoned by his family to fend for himself while just a boy, Rantz left the small town of Sequim in his teens and in just a few years found himself upon the world stage — rowing for glory, gold and the pride of a nation.
Daniel James Brown’s “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics,” tells the tale of Rantz and his gold-medal-winning teammates on the 1936 eight-man U.W. crew team
The Huskies’ victory in Berlin was hardly expected; without the pedigree of Ivy League schools, Washington earned an improbable win in the collegiate national championships to earn a spot at the Olympic Games.
In the following days, the team had to literally pass hats throughout Seattle to collect enough money for travel and expenses to Germany’s Games.
Then came a come-from-behind win in the 1936 eight-man crew finals as the Americans edged Italy by six-tenths of a second, 6:25.4 to 6:26.
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Matt Dryke (born 1958 in Port Angeles, WA) is an American former sports shooter. He won a gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics and is two times world champion in skeet shooting, from 1983 and 1986, and earned a silver medal in 1987.
Dryke's father Chuck Dryke initially trained hunting dogs at Sunnydell Shooting Grounds, a family-run facility on a 40-acre property, which opened in 1945. When he decided the dogs' masters needed his help more, he opened Sunnydell as a training ground for trap and skeet shooters (it later added a sporting clays course).
Joining the U.S. Army as an 18-year-old in 1977, Dryke qualified for the Olympics for the first time in 1980. But since the U.S. boycotted the games in Moscow, Dryke didn't fire his first shot as an Olympian until 1984 in Los Angeles.
By then, he was a favorite to claim gold in skeet, where competitors took aim at 200 clay targets (75, 75 and 50) over three days. Dryke said he his nerves usually never got in the way of his ability, even though other shooters would try to knock him off his game. There would be no choking for Dryke, who used to show off as a youngster by shooting targets while riding a unicycle.
After hitting 74 of 75 targets in each of the first two days, he hit all 50 targets in the final round to win gold, one of 83 American athletes took home that summer.
Sequim is a city in Clallam County, Washington, United States. As of the 2010 census counted a population of 6,606. Sequim is located along the Dungeness River near the base of the Olympic Mountains. The city has been increasing in population dramatically in recent years due to the influx of retirees from the Puget Sound region and California.
Sequim lies within the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains and receives on average less than 16 inches (410 mm) of rain per year—about the same as Los Angeles, California—and has given itself the nickname of Sunny Sequim. Yet the city is fairly close to some of the wettest temperate rainforests of the contiguous United States. This climate anomaly is sometimes called the blue hole of Sequim. Fogs and cool breezes from the Juan de Fuca Strait make Sequim's environment more humid than would be expected from the low average annual precipitation. Some places have surprisingly luxuriant forests dominated by Douglas-fir and western red cedar. Black cottonwood, red alder, bigleaf maple, Pacific madrone, lodgepole pine, and Garry oak can also be large. Historically, much of the area was an open oak-studded prairie supported by somewhat excessively drained gravelly sandy loam soil, though agriculture and development of the Dungeness valley have changed this ecosystem. Most soils under Sequim have been placed in a series which is named after the city. This "Sequim series" is one of the few Mollisols in western Washington and its high base saturation, a characteristic of the Mollisol order, is attributed to the minimal leaching of bases caused by low annual rainfall.
The city and the surrounding area are particularly known for the commercial cultivation of lavender, supported by the unique climate: it makes Sequim the "Lavender Capital of North America", rivaled only in France. The area is also known for its Dungeness crab.
Sequim is pronounced as one syllable, with the e elided: "skwim". The name evolved from the Klallam language.
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I've been wanting to see the lavender gardens in Sequim and finally fulfilled my dream last weekend. There are several gardens in the area and I visited three of them. I thought this one was pretty photogenic.
Sequim K12 is an adult female Southern Resident orca estimated to have been born in 1972. Photo taken from shore on San Juan Island.
Sequim is a city in Clallam County, Washington, United States. As of the 2010 census counted a population of 6,606. Sequim is located along the Dungeness River near the base of the Olympic Mountains. The city has been increasing in population dramatically in recent years due to the influx of retirees from the Puget Sound region and California.
Sequim lies within the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains and receives on average less than 16 inches (410 mm) of rain per year—about the same as Los Angeles, California—and has given itself the nickname of Sunny Sequim. Yet the city is fairly close to some of the wettest temperate rainforests of the contiguous United States. This climate anomaly is sometimes called the blue hole of Sequim. Fogs and cool breezes from the Juan de Fuca Strait make Sequim's environment more humid than would be expected from the low average annual precipitation. Some places have surprisingly luxuriant forests dominated by Douglas-fir and western red cedar. Black cottonwood, red alder, bigleaf maple, Pacific madrone, lodgepole pine, and Garry oak can also be large. Historically, much of the area was an open oak-studded prairie supported by somewhat excessively drained gravelly sandy loam soil, though agriculture and development of the Dungeness valley have changed this ecosystem. Most soils under Sequim have been placed in a series which is named after the city. This "Sequim series" is one of the few Mollisols in western Washington and its high base saturation, a characteristic of the Mollisol order, is attributed to the minimal leaching of bases caused by low annual rainfall.
The city and the surrounding area are particularly known for the commercial cultivation of lavender, supported by the unique climate: it makes Sequim the "Lavender Capital of North America", rivaled only in France. The area is also known for its Dungeness crab.
Sequim is pronounced as one syllable, with the e elided: "skwim". The name evolved from the Klallam language.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequim,_Washington
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...