Inslee flies to Point Roberts to hear from the community that remains isolated by border closure The town of Point Roberts, Washington, is surrounded by water on three sides and has been isolated during the pandemic due to the U.S.-Canada border closure. Author: Chris Daniels Updated: 5:49 PM PDT July 9, 2021 POINT ROBERTS, Wash. — Washington state's governor landed in a small Cessna plane on a grassy field Friday, and then helped push the plane back. It was an odd sight, at this odd site, in a COVID-related chapter that appears to have no end in, well, sight. Inslee became just the third governor to ever visit Point Roberts, Washington, the exclave surrounded by water on three sides, and separated by two international border crossings.