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"If you build it they will come", and we came, but it wasn't easy.
Sinclair Island is a small island in the San Juan chain off Washington State. It's surrounded by rocks and reefs, which you can slide through in a kayak or Zodiac and not much else. 
It is, and will probably remain, an almost secret sanctuary where a single man has a love affair with nature. He's created Boulder Reef Gardens where anyone is welcome to meditate, to think and just to be at one with his singular vision. 
You won't find a web site for Boulder Reef Gardens and it's creator's name escapes me, but it's clear he has no interest in publicity or money. 
Over a 50 acre site he's created a series of trails, which link the little natural theatres where there are chairs in which to sit and carved quotations, which serve to remind one to pay homage to the natural world.
The creator is a pantheist with the spirit of Wordsworth and his wisdom comes from many sources, ranging from Aristotle to Winnie the Pooh. In our money driven world he's created something completely uncommercial and impractical unless, of course, you feel that peace and tranquility are practical and important.
Our 3 hour return journey was made longer by the intervention of the US Coast Guard, who flat out didn't believe that two grown men, Rob Dyke and myself, would travel a long distance in a 12 ft. Zodiac just to walk a labrynth and look at some trees and quotations. They suspected drugs and 'boarded our vessel' for a comprehensive search. They seemed determined to treat us as potential drug runners or terrorists, even when I pointed out that I had designed and patented the survival jackets which are standard issue for the US Coast Guard.
After this intrusion of the 'real world', we bounced back to Vancouver Island seeing the odd Orca whale which, unlike us, does not have to deal with Homeland Security.
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