- Located on beautiful Vashon/Maury Island and a short ferry ride away from Seattle and Tacoma, Dockton Park provides a public boat launch, moorage, a playground, beach access, and picnic facilities on Quartermaster Harbor.
- Canopus (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
CANOPUS (Alpha Carinae). As northerners drive south on winter vacations, if they are familiar with the sky they encounter something of a surprise. Just below the sky’s brightest star, Canis Major’s Sirius, is the SECOND brightest star, Canopus, 30 degrees and almost exactly south of Mirzam, one of Sirius’s announcing star.