The San Juan Island Chamber of Commerce’s Island Light Festival was on Dec. 4. The evening started with an Open House and ornament making, 3:30-5 p.m., at the Whale Museum.
At 5 p.m. the Elementary School Choir, led by Joshua Boland, led caroling from the Whale Museum down to Memorial Park for more caroling with the Island Chordsman Plus led by Angel Michaels.
Santa arrived and turned the lights on, followed by more caroling before heading up to Brickworks for chestnuts on the open fire, crafts with Island Rec, Animal Shelter Giving tree, cocoa, photos with Santa and more.
Freelance contributors:
Aaron Shepard is a freelancer for the Journal of the San Juan Islands and contributed the first 16 photos of the slideshow.
Julie Corey contributed the last three photographs of the slideshow and has been taking photos of the San Juan’s for 20 years and has lived here for 11. She worked on the Western Prince for eight years as a naturalist. She recently published a photo book called “Seasons on the San Juans.” You can purchase the book at Kings, Islands Studio, Whale Museum and Roche Harbor. Part of the sale proceeds will be donated to a local non profit right now that is APS as Corey is president of the board.
