Dear Valued Patos Docents and Friends, May 13th, 2020 I hope you and your families are all making the best of this very hard situation and you are keeping safe and enjoying your home sanctuary. The KOPL board met yesterday … Continue reading
Linda Hudson
Our fearless leader, Sandy Evans, has set up the Patos Island work-party schedule for the upcoming 2020 season. So here it is: Greetings, fellow lovers of our little island in the north! Here is the schedule for this year’s maintenance … Continue reading
There are still open days and weekends for Docents. For additional information and/or to sign up: Contact Tracy at: outdoors@rockisland.com Or: patoslighkeepers@hotmail.com Note: In order to be a docent on Patos, at least one member of the group must … Continue reading
Contact us @: outdoors@rockisland.com or patoslightkeepers@hotmail.com Dear Patos Island KOPL friends, Thank you to all of you already scheduled to volunteer on Patos this summer as a lighthouse keeper. I’m trusting you all have your dates confirmed. The season starts … Continue reading
Schooner Zodiac Special! Would you like a short vacation, but close to home? And would you like to visit the lighthouses of the San Juans? Well, why not do it on a sailing vessel? Check out this special offer! Edrie … Continue reading
Let’s wake-up, clean up and primp up the Island on May 21, 2020. Join us for our world-famous spring camp-out and clean-up. In 2020, we plan, as usual, to have a Patos Island Work Party every month from May to … Continue reading
From our President, Edrie Vinson: The Orcas Island Historical Museum voted to have their Christmas display at Rosario on the Patos Lighthouse. They will use the photos I borrowed from many of you for the Washington Rural Heritage project. They … Continue reading
Patos Island Lighthouse exhibit opens at historical museum Mon Oct 15th, 2018 1:30am If you didn’t get a chance to visit the Patos Island Lighthouse exhibit on Patos Island, you will now get a chance to view it on Orcas … Continue reading
Our little lighthouse is now closed for the winter. The lighthouse will reopen with a staff of Docent Volunteers sometime in May of 2019. The first work party will go out in April of 2019. For information on either volunteering … Continue reading
Patos Island Lighthouse photos and documents digitized Sun Sep 16th, 2018 1:30am Life Harry D Mahler, 1st keeper of Patos Fog Signal Station, Patos Island, Washington 1893. by Nita Couchman Orcas Island Library Orcas Island Library received a 2017 grant … Continue reading