Paddlers to meet, talk kayak oceanography
The Olympic Peninsula Paddling Club’s October meeting — set for 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11, at the Solana Clubhouse, 135 Solana Pkwy. — will include a presentation titled “Kayak Oceanography: A Bit of What Goes on under the Hull” by Dr. Danny Grünbaum of the University of Washington’s School of Oceanography.
Grünbaum will describe the oceanography of favorite kayaking sites, including features such as currents, how salinity and temperature can cause layering in the water column, and how these layers shift and overturn with the seasons. He will also describe how layering can contribute to environmental problems like hypoxic “dead” zones and ocean acidification.
Grünbaum’s presentation will cover information about sea creatures, the zooplankton, the world of holoplankton, copepods, mysids, dinoflagellates (including bioluminescent ones), and gelatinous zooplankton like cnidarians and ctenophores, and how these creatures interact across the seasons in the food chain in the region’s seas.
This event is free. For more information, email to infor@olympicpeninsulapaddlers.com or visit olympicpeninsulapaddlers.com.
Registration opens for Sunshine fest run
Registration is now open for the fifth-annual Sequim Sunshine Festival Sun Fun Color Run, scheduled for Saturday, March 2, 2024. Register online at runsignup.com/Race/WA/Sequim/SunFunColorRun.
This family-friendly event begins and ends at Carrie Blake Park and has a 1k and a 5k option, with color stations along the course.
File photo by Keith Thorpe/Olympic Peninsula News Group Children run beneath a volley of tempera paint cannons at the start of the 1k Sun Fun Color Run at Carrie Blake Community Park in 2020. Registration for the 2024 event is now open.
Registration is $30 for the 5k and $15 for the 1k. Fee includes a Sun Fun Color Run T-shirt, race bib, finisher medal, sunglasses, a neck gaiter face covering, and a starting line color blast bag. Registration fees will increase on Nov. 1. Event space is limited, and the event is expected to sell out.
For more about the run and the 2024 Sequim Sunshine Festival, visit visitsunnysequim.com or contact Race Director Victoria Jones at vabjones@gmail.com or 585-451-0014.
Henninger named GNAC player of week
Former Sequim soccer goalkeeper and Western Washington University senior Claire Henninger has been selected as the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week for games played Sept. 18-24.
Henninger was the goalkeeper for the Vikings team last year that won the NCAA Div. II national championship. She was the all-Peninsula girls soccer MVP in 2016 and made the first team of the All-Olympic League.
Henninger combined to make 11 saves during the undefeated week, with the Vikings going 1-0-2.
The senior goalkeeper made a career-high six saves in the Vikings’ 1-1 tie at rival Seattle Pacific on Saturday, also playing a part in a missed SPU penalty kick in the final minutes.
In five games this season, Henninger has one shutout to bring her career total to 14.
This marks the second GNAC Defensive Player of the Week award for Henninger, also earning the honor Oct. 17-23 during the national championship season.
WWU will celebrate its 2022 national championship prior to its Oct. 7 game vs. Northwest Nazarene.
Larry Scott Trail run set for Oct. 14
The Larry Scott Trail half-marathon/10k/5k is set for Saturday, Oct. 14, with its start at the Larry Scott Trailhead at the Port of Port Townsend’s Boat Haven.
Register by Friday, Oct. 13. Bib pick-up opens at 7:30 a.m. on race day, with the half-marathon starting at 8:30 a.m. and the 5k and 10k races at 9:30 a.m.
Registration is $80 for the half-marathon, $40 for the 5k and 10k and $35 for the virtual half-marathon 5k and 10k. Sing up at runsignup.com/Race/WA/PortTownsend/LarryScottTrail. Event swag includes Run the Peninsula sunglasses.
See runthepeninsula.com/larry-scott-trail for more information.
