Quileute welcome whales in annual ceremony Peninsula Daily News

LA PUSH — The Quileute Tribe welcomed migrating whales with an offering of salmon and a song and dance on the sand — and in the surf — of First Beach in La Push. Battling sideways wind and rain, 16-year-old David Ward and five of his peers waded barefoot through rolling waves carrying a wooden float adorned with a salmon filet on a bed of cedar branches last Friday. They turned the float over, the salmon disappeared into the waves, and the teens splashed back to shore to be draped in blankets. “I could not feel my feet,” Ward said…