![Uncharted waters](https://blog.piercecountywa.gov/executive/files/2020/03/Puget-Sound-map-720x360.jpg)
Uncharted waters
I love nautical charts. They give me a sense of confidence, imply adventure, and are packed with information describing the environment both above and below the water. Wrecks, rocks, currents, tides, harbors, channels – even magnetic deviation – it is all there to help a sailor get safely from one port to another. I even have some as artwork! As I boat on the Sound (with both charts AND GPS), I often think about what it would be like to sail in uncharted waters. To have been with the first native people or early explorers venturing into and around the Salish Sea for the first time. How do you proceed into waters that are unknown and uncertain? I think all of us can relate much more closely these days with…