on island getaways t v come and explore with us the hidden treasures of the pacific northwest and island communities by sampling their food and local activities this magical series will take the viewer to unique locations that are easy to visit and cater to the budget minded traveller island getaway is the vision of award winning producer a veteran of numerous film and television productions broadcasters and distributors of scott's previous work immediately responded to a series that will capture the high definition of the western hemisphere's island communities this production will capture the true lifestyles and local activities of island residents educating and entertaining everyone from the outdoor adventure to baby boomers currently well into production this series is new innovative and possibly the best thing to come out of washington state now come take a trip with us into the magical adventures of island getaways now with everything and still walking distance i still managed to hitch a ride in a beautiful ferrari from a local island resident who owns his own racing team our first stop was the front street grill met up with general manager sean enter he told us a little bit about his waterfront restaurant ten every year it just keeps getting better here in the restaurant the beautiful view that we have here in front of penn cove we just featured out a new menu that we just put out where we're featuring penco mussels so because we're sitting right here in pen co we wanted to really emphasize penco muscles so we have eleven different fascinating recipes and you had one of our favorites here in the restaurant so many new items on the menu some gluten free options we have a kids menu for children and it's just been a real fun time so far dan of maryland miranda just probably one of the best people i've ever worked for ever so down on his own because custom construction business he built this restaurant from the ground up and he built his own home of course and he's built several homes here and coop they're all just amazingly beautiful and this is our condo that we have above the restaurant this is rented out nightly or weekly so people i've come in families sometimes up to six people will stay near sometimes single individuals you know stay in year for a period of time so it's a beautiful place to stay it's virtually the same size of the restaurants and it's you know nice to just come in to relax and have the same view as the restaurant of the water after lunch we caught up with a when these kids go out i tell them the history of the area back in seventy nine two on george take over was a warning to syria for the english and just about on two hundred side like a receipt so she's a very very comfortable after touring coupe fell and learning about its rich history and people we decided to call it a night i headed back to the blue goose in to get some rest making the day an hello everyone and welcome to island getaways t v we're here at the beautiful wildwood barns just outside of oak harbor and with the island i have with me here arlo has a beautiful house thirteen years old fourteen hands t me a little bit about the island's maritime history we have a very rich maritime history city of course that's where people came and went from the island for years and until we had the perception past bridge and nine hundred thirty five first it was by and in canoe dugout canoe which we have some here today one above us and then later on by a sailing ship captain vancouver was one of the earliest explorers here and in fact would be alan is named after his ship's master master with big and then later by the mosquito fleet which is represented here with these steamship models we have the calista and we have the favorite which is a tugboat everyone's favorite and in fact we're very fortunate to have a guest with us today roger sherman whose family has a very special story related to the coolest stuff  mr sherman oh a cynic i miss to meet you tell me how did the sherman family come about the island well we date back to the late eighteenth hundreds and my mother's family came in eight hundred eighty five and my father's family came in eight hundred ninety six and they both started farms and that's what i know farmer only i kind of graduated into being a historian but part of that is is my maritime history was because of an incident that happened to our family and at that time in nineteen twenty two  university of washington was active and they had a place called the wayfarer and so five members of my father's family decided to bill and they went on a quest which was on a daily route at that time that would be and my aunt one aunt was fifteen years old the other at was seventeen years old first time they had ever been off the island and they had all new clothes and new shoes those were full and as the ship sank the lifeboats floated off and but the problem was a painter on one of the lifeboats that's the line that hooks it to the boat it was still attached and they couldn't untie the knot and so the same one that was in charge of the lifeboat hollered for somebody with a knife and my grandfather being a farmer came forth with this sharp knife and he cut the line and everybody was saved and and they were they to save this beautiful victorian courthouse and unfortunately that didn't work but it's been good ever since and in fact in one thousand nine hundred one it's this building was built on by volunteers very fortunate and th us started as a dream of my business partner audrey hochman and myself in july two thousand and six we had worked in the visitor industry for over almost twenty years each and thought why not try to do something that no one else has attempted to do and try something and make something different more exciting and just going on a small quick trip if we can do other things for people so we designed our own boat specially designed fifty one foot boat to go where nobody else goes to see things nobody else sees we go all around the island a little naive along the are being cause you see because of waves and wind and we see over sixteen boat wrecks first thing in the morning we arrive at three different snorkel spots and it's a go all around the island which nobody else does we get to go snorkel we're nobody else has been so the snorkeling is  snorkeling not snorkeling that's been damaged by too much human impact first snorkeling spot we go to it's place called cookie monster no a fisheries department has gone out there and they have discovered ninety seven varieties of fish at that one location which is a very very high number there's four hundred fifty varieties of fish in hawaii of which thirty percent can be found nowhere else in the world to see ninety seven varieties one snorkels but this is a real treat we snorkelled with dolphins just three weeks ago at the same location three hundred spinner dolphins came in and w snorkeling with us or snorkel was printed off and for four hours amazing spot then we start doing things that we think makes the trip special and we start going in and look at it caves and cliffs i like to believe that you can go on our boat and not go snorkeling and have the best time of your life on maui the things we see the stories we tell twenty four years ago my first job i was hired by this point family who original inhabitants of the island illinois and they would pull me aside each day they called talk story time and they would sit me down that we talk about all the history of that island from the original inhabitants to present day and i will share those stories with you fun scary stories see on believable interesting sites around lunchtime we arrive halfway around the island to vote with no clue to the half way around the journey we sit have lunch snorkel another amazing with unbelievable numbers of fish fish that are big enough that come right up to your face to five ten pound fish and there we continue on the south side of the island there we get to see the huge luxury resorts that larry ellison just bought  six hundred million dollars when you see one of those resorts one of the reasons why he did buy that that island and we head on home of the cross in the cross in my view that sometimes the best part of the trip for people it's called the roller coaster the boat gets a bounce around fly in and out of the water all along the entire time a tour champions tour and most recently the skins game that we've had here with jack nicklaus arnold palmer tom watson great great great history of tournament golf what makes con a poly golf course is unique are three things one is that we maintain through the renovation we actually maintain our the classic style and the intention of the original architects we didn't want to glitzy it up glamour it up and make it sort of these unfriendly golf courses we want to keep the integrity of it keep it the island getaways t v come and explore with us the hidden treasures of the pacific northwest and pacific rim island communities by sampling their food and local activities this magical series will take the viewer to unique locations that are easy to visit and cater to the budget minded traveler island getaways t v is the vision of award winning producer scott kappa stanny a veteran of numerous film and television productions broadcasters and distributors of scott's previous work immediately responded to a series that will capture the high definition beauty of the western hemisphere is island communities this production will capture the true lifestyles and local activities of island residents educating and entertaining everyone from the outdoor adventurist to baby boomers currently well into production this series is new innovative and possibly the best thing to come out of washington state now come take a trip with us into the magical adventures of island getaways