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Orcas Island Lodging :: The Bay and the Grotto

Best Orcas Lodging and Accommodation Options (Battle #2)

This Week’s Showdown: Orcas Ohana Vacation Rental VS the Outlook Inn! Did you catch last week’s Orcas Island Lodging Battle? It was a close fight to the very end, but you, the lodger and guest, still came out as the winner! Congrats! You’re undefeated! Yet perhaps you are unsatisfied with just 1 victory notch on More >

Orcas Island Lodging :: The View from the Secret Grotto

Best Orcas Island Lodging and Accommodation Options (Battle #1)

This Week’s Showdown: Orcas Ohana Vacation Rental VS The Doe Bay Resort!!! So you’re ramping up for a vacation on Orcas Island and looking for the place that’s best suited to what you need and desire during your stay. Today we come to you with an obvious bias–we’re pretty big fans of our Orcas Ohana More >

The Dali Lama on Orcas Island! Can you find him?

Orcas Island Vacation Rental: Money-Saving Opportunities

The Orcas Ohana Photo Scavenger Hunt Earn 5 or 10% OFF your 2nd stay (and have a great time doing it!) As mentioned in a previous entry, we have put together a special photo scavenger hunt for any and all of our awesome Orcas Island guests! The game is simple and easy-to-do, but as we More >

Sample platters and bottomless peanuts! Num num numb....my face is numb.

Orcas Ohana Vacation Rental : The Island Hoppin’ Brewery

Orcas Island has been waiting for a place like this… And finally it has come: our very own local brewery! And it’s got that comfy, natural Orcas Island feel! We were 3 thirsty men when we arrived, our dogs (feet) and dog (Jazzy) all tired out from a day of tramping through the woods of More >

Local legend Emily Reid and her roadside stand. Photo courtesy of  Thomas J. Story

A “Gourmet Getaway” on Orcas Island :: A Sunset Magazine Feature

For Any Foodies Looking For Some….Food. To Orcas Island You Must Come! We found this little bit of article on Sunset Magazine talking briefly about Orcas Island as a “Gourmet Getaway”. Check it out: Rent your own little cabin by the water and savor the farm-fresh bounty with home-cooked meals ― recipes included. As foodie More >

Taken at last years festival--courtesy of the Chamber of Commerce's site

Orcas Island Vacation Rental :: The 2nd Annual Orcas Island Shakespeare Festival

Orcas Island Vacation Rental :: Come get your Shakespeare on everybody!   Looking to coincide your stay at an Orcas Island Vacation Rental with some kind of intelligently quirky local event? Plan your visit to Orcas Ohana around March 22nd-23rd and pay homage to one of the greatest minds of all time! Renowned Shakespeare actors More >

Orcas Island Vacation Home :: San Juan Islands Wildlife

Orcas Island Vacation Rental :: This Week’s Wildlife of the San Juan Islands (the Harbor Seal)

Orcas Island Vacation Rental :: It’s Harbor Seal Pupping Time in the San Juan Islands In the Orcas Island Vacation Rental community there tis a great buzz ’bout the place. What kind of buzz, you mayn’t be askin’? It’s the seal puppin’ buzz. Yes every year bout this time o’ season, the legendary harbor seal More >

Orcas Ohana :: Eastsound, WA

Quirky News and Events on Eastsound, Orcas Island

Eastsound, Orcas Island: Where Eccentricity is Electricity   Eastsound, Orcas Island is a town that doesn’t exactly throw its eclecticism in your face. As far as I know there are no packs of chainsaw-wielding jugglers roving the streets or hairy nudist colonies displayed upon Main Street. As far as I know. But there are, however, More >

Melty dewy yummy....

San Juan Island Getaway: Spring is in the Air, Everywhere I Look Around

Spring is in the Air, Every Sight and Every Sound: San Juan Island Getaway Time! There’s nothing like thawing out, unplugging your eyes, uplifting your buttocks and getting back into the gnarly nature of your favorite San Juan Island Getaway: Orcas Ohana! Rebirth, purity, life and growth, these are the sensation of spring! But can More >

Such a crafty lil devil!

Orcas Island Vacation Rental :: This Week’s Wildlife of the San Juan Islands (the Red Fox)

Orcas Island Vacation Rental :: Discovering a Wild Creature of the San Juan Islands (Non-native Species time!) As we mentioned last week, whether you’re camping, kayaking, boating, hiking, biking or sasquatching about the San Juan Islands (Orcas Island in particular), the effect remains the same: catching sight of any live wildlife will liven up your More >