HOWB 051 – Center for Wooden Boats at CAMA Beach, WA: Interviews – John Dean and Andrew Washburn - 9/6/12

This week I drove 45 minutes to CAMA Beach State Park where the Center for Wooden Boats refurbished and opened a Boathouse in 2008 in conjunction with WA state parks refurbishing and opening this 30+ cabin resort. This is one beautiful spot. CAMA Beach was a water front resort from 1935 to 1980, at which time it was closed. In the good old days, you could drive your car to this resort, rent a cabin and a row or power boat to crab and fish from.

These type of resorts were called Auto Courts at the time – an inexpensive place to park the car for the night and enjoy the great outdoors. The family that owned CAMA Beach for most of its life, passed it on the WA State Parks and the Center for Wooden Boats to refurbish and reopen the park for usage similar to the previous 4 plus decades.

The joint interview is with Andrew Washburn (the outgoing manager) and John Dean the incoming manager for CAMA beach. Andrew is moving on to a new role of collecting historical information about former water front resorts in Western Washington and building an exhibit at the CWB South Lake Union. John is the incoming CAMA beach manager and a 30 year resident of Camano Island.

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PS  Please note this podcast was recorded several years ago - some of the links, email addresses, phone numbers, and promos mentioned are outdated and no longer valid.