- Skookum Inlet Natural Area Preserve (dnr.wa.gov)
This 143-acre preserve protects a variety of salt-marsh communities and tideflats, along with a second growth forested buffer, that are important examples of wetland ecosystems in the southern Puget Sound. Chum and coho salmon spawn in the small creek which enters the estuary protected within the preserve.
- Tuvalu (Wikipedia)
Tuvalu (/tuːˈvɑːluː/ too-VAH-loo) is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia. It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands (which belong to the Solomon Islands), northeast of Vanuatu, southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of Tokelau, northwest of Samoa and Wallis and Futuna, and north of Fiji.
