Deer are serious swimmers. I've seen them swim across the Nisqually Reach
from the Tolmie State Park area to Anderson Island; once I saw a doe and a
fawn swim across Padilla Bay from Bayview to Guemes Island, a straight-line
distance of nearly five miles. Not a big fawn either. I was impressed!

How far is Protection Island from the mainland?

Tom Schooley said:
>A deer on Protection Island? That is certainly unusual. In my several
>trips out there we never saw a deer, nor did any island residents speak of
>them. Perhaps this one swam across recently. That's quite a swim from
>Sequim!


Eric Kraig
Olympia, WA
kraig at wln.com