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	<description>...the journey continues</description>
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		<title>Puget Sound Kayak Symposium</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 19:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Weileman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Tacoma Metro Parks will be hosting the 4th annual Puget Sound Kayak Symposium. The event will be held at Owens Beach locate within Point Defiance Park starting at 9 AM Saturday May 17th. Tickets for the event can be purchased on line here.
Both Jason and myself will once again be part of the on-water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bats in the Belfry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 02:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Goldstein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know our Capitol (Olympia) is home to bats? Its true!  I&#8217;ve seen them feeding at Capitol Lake on several  evening paddling trips.  Sometime late in the evening they return to their Belfry - an old abandoned railroad bridge in Woodard Bay once used for logging operations.  So my mission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Island Belle Bounty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 19:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Weileman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Round and flavorful, Island Belle grapes were well suited for Puget Sound weather and soils. Developed locally from crossbreeding of Concord-type strains, Island Belle grapes produce well, ripen before the frosts and have thicker skins to resist splitting in the rainy conditions of the Puget Sound area.
You can still see the remnants of the furrowed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghosts of Budd Inlet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Weileman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring here in the Pacific Northwest means having to make do with wet weather. It&#8217;s just part of the price to be paid for living in such a wonderful location. Spring means having to deal with the extremes of that weather on what seems to be a minute by minute basis; sun followed by gale; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Site Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Weileman</dc:creator>
		
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For the last two months I&#8217;ve been busy rewriting the entire Essex site in PHP code. This was done in order to facilitate the migration of  our Journal section to Wordpress, and also to prep for the integration of a mySQL database.
If you&#8217;re a geek, you&#8217;ll understand the potential of where we&#8217;re going with [...]]]></description>
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