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Camano Island
is a large island in Puget Sound
, located in Island County, Washington
between Whidbey Island
and the mainland. The island is reached via Washington State Route 532
over the Mark Clark Bridge
in the northeast of the island.
There are about 13,000 residents on the island located in the pristine Pacific Northwest. This location, blessed with beauty is closer than you may think! Camano Island has it all
--from thousands of acres of unspoiled hills to miles of uncrowded Puget Sound shoreline, from the raccoons and deer populating stately evergreen forests to bald eagles and blue herons along the beach. And it's easily accessible by bridge--no waiting for ferries here!
 Living on Camano Island is special.
We have so much wildlife and access to recreation, such as crabbing, fishing, hiking, beaches, boating, jet skiing, hunting, clamming and mild weather. Living in the sunbelt of Washington, Camano Island residents enjoy more sunshine and less rain fall than most other west side areas. Our location puts us within about 90 minutes to much of the best Washington has to offer. Camano Island is about 23 miles long from tip to tip and is relatively narrow, affording a water view to many of the island's inhabitants. Numinous beaches and boat launches make access to the Puget Sound easy. On Camano you can find homes for less than $100,000.00 to well over a $1,500,000.00 for water front estates. You can find building sites on Camano Island for as little at $30,000.00 to well over a million. Access to commercial conveniences is improving all the time. We have several good restaurants, two new shopping centers, a new movie theater, great schools and almost no crime.
An investment on Camano Island is sure to appreciate quickly, especially if it has a good view or is on the water.
As more people discover Camano Island, prices will surely continue to rise. If you are interested in owning a home or just purchasing a lot or acreage for investment or future use I can help. I will show you where the best places to buy are that factor in what you need to know. I know the Island well and can show you properties and places on the Island that are truly special. You will feel like you are on vacation.
Let me show you how you can own a piece of Camano Island.
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or those in an island getaway mood, there is so much to do on Camano Island. Small county parks at Utsalady Bay and Cavalero Beach offer boaters convenient free launch sites. At beautiful Camano Island State Park, Sunday afternoon strollers will find easy beach access. Also provided are picnic shelters, campsites, beach combing and boat launch...plus breathtaking views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains across yachtsmen's popular waterway, Saratoga Passage.
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he unique appeal of Camano Island is that it offers visitors a real-life island experience -- without the hype. Don't expect trendy tourist traps. There are a few restaurants, a handful of country-style grocery stores, bed and breakfast facilities, and intriguing fine art galleries to serve the elite few who have discovered Camano Island.
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t is not surprising that Camano's population swells by several thousand in the summer when one considers the protected location offered by Saratoga Passage to the west, Skagit Bay to the north, and Port Susan to the east. There are about 13,347 permanent residents living on Camano Island with the Island County seat located in Coupeville on Whidbey Island. Schools are located in the nearby town of Stanwood in Snohomish County, and two elementary schools are located on Camano Island.
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amano Island has a colorful history, first with the Native Americans who fished, clammed, and picked berries on the hillsides. The island takes its name from an early Spanish explorer, and in the 1700s Europeans mapped and named many places in the area. The Douglas firs became very desirable for shipbuilding, and by the 1800's Camano Island was a bustling community with mills, homes, and schools, and with tall ships taking cargo from the deep waters at the north end of the island.
Camano Island
did not always bear its intriguing Spanish name. The local Indians called it Kol-lut-chen: "Land jutting out into a bay," but this name never appeared on a map.
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n 1791, Great Britain had sent Captain George Vancouver with the ships Discovery and Chatham to search for a northwest passage to the Atlantic Ocean. He was also ordered to chart Nootka Island and Sound which England got back from Spain through treaty agreements in 1790. Vancouver, with the aid of Peter Puget and Captain Whidbey, spent three summers surveying and naming the west coast areas of North America as far as Cooke Inlet - unaware that the land they saw on the west side of Port Susan Bay was an island, since there was heavy fog while they were charting those waters.
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n 1838, Lieutenant Charles Wilkes of the United States Navy was given command of a United States exploration to chart southern waters, including Puget Sound and the Oregon country. This first American scientific expedition was also to name the areas not previously titled. Lieutenant Wilkes' selection for this small island, nestled between Whidbey Island to the west and the mainland to the east, was Macdonough Island - to honor Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough, captain of the 26-gun ship during the War of 1812. The waters between Macdonough and Whidbey Island Wilkes named Saratoga Passage.
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owever, in 1847, British navy Captain Kellett of the surveying vessel Herald dropped the name Macdonough for the island in his effort to restore Spanish names to the area. He bestowed the present title of Camano Island to honor Lieutenant Don Jacinto Caamano of the Spanish Navy, who also explored western waters working out of Spain's naval base in San Blas, Mexico during the 1700's, but had not come into what was later known as Puget Sound. In the 1855 treaty with local Indians, Governor Isaac Stevens of Washington Territory referred to the island as Perry Island.
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hen came the lusty loggers who had a jargon of their own. They jovially "nicknamed" the island "Crow Island", a name it retained locally through the early 1900's.
When I ponder this historical tidbit about our lovely island with its musical Spanish name, though settled predominately by Andersons, Petersons, Olsons, and Hansons, I am reminded of Shakespeare's words, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
- History provided by the Stanwood Area Historical Society
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