Island County (Whidbey and Camano Islands) is updating their 2006 trails plan with a $200,000 federal grant allocated for the study. I attended one of the open houses in Coupeville yesterday, which was very well attended. You can take the survey and submit comments here.
Most of the material presented concerned shoreline access and bicycle trail and route improvements but there was considerable interest in connecting the Ebey Bluff Trail and PNT to the Fort Ebey and Kettles trail systems. This would make for some excellent long day hikes.
Just took the survey. Walked Ebey Landing beach and biked Kettle Trails Sat. 2/4. Island County does a great job on access, history, stewardship. With difficult infrastructure(i.e. water/salination/NAS contamination) Whidbey especially has escaped some of the intense development pressure of a Maltby or Woodinville.
Best of Luck Island County.
Tom in Build it Out at All Costs Snohomish County
Hmmm... Ive been scolded by reisdents who own bluff property between Ebeys Landing and Fort Casey. Walking the beach and them telling me to about face and return to where I came from.
There are posted "private property" signs at the nortn end of the bluff trail you mention and right where the trail heads back down to the beach.
The State owns a strip around the property you mention, before you reach the end of the Bluff Trail.
No one had the right to scold you on the beach between Fort Casey and Ebey's landing. This is all State tideland and a designated route of the PNT.
On most of the east side beaches of Whidbey, all the tidelands are privately owned. I'm on Greenbank Beach and our title (and we pay taxes on) includes all the way to the lower low-water line. Almost all of the beaches on the west side North of Hancock Lake are public/ State tideland.
At the meeting, the County had maps and a guidebook that showed all public beaches and access.
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