While travel – especially on water – has long been a passion for new Shelter Bay manager Rick Tanner, the Idaho native is thankful to now lay his anchor in La Conner.

“La Conner is among the most beautiful places we have ever lived, partly because it offers coastline, small town feel and some of the most beautiful farms and land I have ever seen,” Tanner, who has worked and lived in more than a dozen states, said.

Shelter Bay, the 900-home residential community on land leased from the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, topped his and wife Sherri’s wish list for re-entry into the jo...