The salmon are back and all is OK | Clowns, performers and San Juan Islands’ boaters travel 100 years into the future with the Aqua Chautauqua

What will the San Juan Islands look like in 100 years? With this question, the Aqua Chautauqua opens every performance. It is, the players tell the crowd, the year 2126, and everything is OK — the salmon are back, the water runs clean and the archipelago from the San Juans to the Canadian Gulf Islands has learned to live within its own means. This summer, that traveling premise sailed to its final stop, made last weekend on Gabriola Island, and the ragtag flotilla of boaters from Orcas, San Juan, Lopez and Lummi islands, along with clowns, musicians and environmentalists who carried it from island to island, came ashore for the last time wit…