Professional pilots refer to Sequim as the 'Blue Hole' because Sequim, Washington is in the heart of a Rain Shadow. 

The blue skies and sunny weather of Sequim WA, has blessed Sequim land and Sequim homes with nearly 300 days of sunshine and less than 17 inches of annual rainfall.

Thank you for visiting our mysequim.com community web site.  We use the term community web site, simply for the fact this web site has arisen from the needs and comments offered by community members and visitors to our area.  Some of our largest requests from visitors to the community have been regarding indoor and outdoor activities, real estate, schools, restaurants, health and medical services.

Much of the web page story contents have been written and provided by local community members.   For this we thank all of our contributors.  Without you, this would just be another information web site with content that never changes.  We are now in the process of accepting story's from community members and visitors about their experiences while living or visiting the North Olympic Peninsula.  You will notice a link to the left titled This Month's Featured Story, where you will find a featured short story, or adventures, submitted by individuals descriptions of the history of the Peninsula or of their indoor and outdoor experiences while living or visiting the Olympic Peninsula.  If you would like to have your story or adventure published on this web page, please send us your contact information and a brief excerpt from your story to story@mysequim.com and we will have our team review it and get back to you within two weeks.  For you story to be published it needs to be about the history, life or living on the North Olympic Peninsula.  We will do our best to publish all story or articles that fit the parameters of this public web site.

To the left of each web page, you will find navigation bars that will take you to information on each of these topics.  Upon arriving on the accompanying web pages, you may also find additional links that will direct you to additional often more detailed information on the topic.  At times you may be directed to other community web sites, which will in most cases open in a new web browser window.  We have launched our long awaited Peninsula Picture Library in June of 2007, and our staff and local community members, and visitors are now able to upload their personal pictures of the North Olympic Peninsula.  You are invited to view the gallery and sign up for an account and start uploading your images.

As we have stated in our opening, this web site is built of the needs of our community members and visitors to the North Olympic Peninsula.  If you feel that their should be new web pages added to this web site, or you have an idea for you would like to share, please send an email with your suggestion to requests@mysequim.com.

At the bottom of this web page, as well as on most other web pages on this web site, you'll find links, and content that supports the title of the web page you are visiting. 

For those of you who have fun maintaining your own personal web pages, you'll find it interesting to note that this is one of the things that helps us with maintaining page ranking.  The other and most important method is links form other web sites like yours.  So please place a link on your web site.  This will help to insure the success of mysequim.com web site.  Thank you and please enjoy your stay.

Rain maps and rainfall records, kept since the early part of the nineteenth century, indicate that one can expect an increase in rainfall of about 1.6 inches per mile as you travel west from Sequim Washington, and an increase of about 1 inch traveling in the opposite direction.  The "Blue Hole" rain shadow extends about six miles west and seven miles east from Sequim Washington, and from the Olympic Mountain foothills to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.  November - December - January are traditionally the wettest months in Sequim WA, averaging from about three inches in December to a little less than two inches in January.  The area's driest period is July - August - September.

It is our hope that useful information on our schools; libraries, community college, medical facilities, golf courses, marinas, Tribal facilities/Casino, Olympic National Park, restaurants, businesses, and indoor and outdoor recreation, can be easily accessed through our comprehensive user friendly web pages, and links.  We pride ourselves in having the best local Internet resource links for the North Olympic Peninsula.  Enjoy your time spent on the mysequim.com web site, and do not forget to check out our Peninsula Picture Gallery to see pictures taken by residents and visitors of the beautiful indoor and outdoor activities available to enjoy on the Olympic Peninsula.  Before you leave, please make sure you get a live local view from our live weather camera located on Bell Hill overlooking Discovery Trail Real Estate, John Wayne Marina, Sequim Bay, Protection Island, The Straits of Juan De Fuca and Vancouver Island, Canada.

As you visit our community web site, you will quickly realize Sequim Washington, is unlike any other place in the world.  Sequim lies in the fertile Dungeness Valley, snuggled between the Olympic Mountains and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. We are less than two hours drive from Seattle, a short ferry ride to Victoria BC, and minutes away from pristine alpine meadows in the spectacular Olympic Mountains.  It can be truly said that Sequim Washington is friendly small town America, with one wonderful exception; it is one of the most beautiful and healthy spots in the world.  No matter where you choose to on the Olympic Peninsula or live in the Sequim/Dungeness Valley, you will be living only minute’s away from an extraordinary number of outstanding indoor and outdoor recreational activities.  Sequim has one of only three ultra modern treatment systems in the state that allow waters to be returned to the tide waters so clean that our salmon and shell fish habitat is maintained in a pristine and healthy fashion.  Thriving local farmers, food coops and Saturday markets support and market locally grown organic produce from the rich farmlands of the Discovery Trail.  You can even get a weekly basket of unique greens, vegetables and fruits from Nash Huber one of the states leading organic farmers who grows his produce in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley.

Although we do not represent ourselves as realtors, or real estate agents, we do provide resources on this web site that could be of assistance for those of you who are thinking of moving to Sequim WA, or are thinking about selling your Sequim WA real estate. We do however, have agreement with licensed real estate agents who can provide exceptionally proficient assistance in marketing homes, buying or selling land, working directly with builders, finding and selling commercial property and locating business property, luxury homes, vacation property and mountain property.  We only associate ourselves, and refer you to professionally trained accredited realtors, who have a personal heart felt attention to you because they love, respect and will maintain the values of this beautiful community. That is why we will ask you now and in the future to let us know if you are not being treated with respect and dignity.  This is where we and they all live, raise children, enjoy life with their children and grand children, and what we expect them to represent to you.  We are often asked about the real estate market in the Sequim WA area.  There is of course, no catch answer or instant overview that can answer all your questions  We will tell you, the whole North Olympic Peninsula real estate market is said to always remain strong, and is less affected by outside market influences. In short, as a general rule, regardless of what is happening else where in America, individuals are still wanting to move here for the temperate climate and all season long recreation.  The Sequim real estate market is expected to continue growing in size, primarily due to the facts of what we have been telling you about the Peninsula and its reputation for being an area is highly desirable, and a healthy place to live.  The Sequim WA area is in fact, highly knows for its higher than average number of Retiree's, based on the national demographical average.  For those of you that love the game and recreation of Golf, you have come to the right community, golfers will tell you.  Golfer's tell us that they can average well over 300 days a year of Golf, because of the rain shadow.  They also tell us that they like the fact that the tempature is moderate all year long, and that it rarely every gets to hot, or too cold.  Sound a little to much like paradise?  Well if you are a Golfer, we challenge you to check it out and answer that question yourself. 

From our community web site, you can create mortgage amortization schedules, find information on local housing costs, locate commercial real estate and view riverfront property.  You can search for land at sea level, work up information on land development costs or learn about our private and public schools.  Take some time to browse through our web site. This is the right web site to search for Sequim Washington Real Estate, Sequim Homes, Sequim Land, or Sequim Businesses. anywhere along the Discovery Trail, from Lapush, Forks, Joyce, Port Angeles, Port Townsend Washington. We have full access to all multiple listing services. If you have any comments or questions, please contact us.  We want our web site to serve you in the best way possible. Friendly criticism and suggestions are welcome.  We have completely revised material based on emails from viewers pointing out areas than we could improve to better serve our Sequim Wa real estate customers.

There is something good and fun for almost anyone. Golfing, flying, fresh and salt water fishing, hiking, dancing, climbing, kayaking and beach combing are popular year round activities.  The Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center, a YMCA and local exercise clubs have everything from swimming and saunas to Tai chi classes, which compliment the healthy living atmosphere of Sequim property and homes.  We hope you enjoy our web site.  Use the Navigation bars to explore our web site and to find the wonderful things to do we are talking about.  Our request to you is, when you think of Real Estate in Sequim WA, be it Sequim Real Estate in general, Sequim Homes, Sequim Land or Sequim Property, please try us.  We will help you with your real estate needs the to the length of the Discovery Trail and beyond. We go the extra mile to provide unsurpassed real estate service and information.

Best wishes, the staff,
of MySequim.com,
Sequim, WA.