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The Swinomish Channel is an 11-mile (18 km) long [1] salt-water channel in Washington state, United States, which connects Skagit Bay to the south and Padilla Bay to the north, separating Fidalgo Island from mainland Skagit County. [2] The Swinomish Channel is the smallest of the three entrances to Puget Sound—the other two being Deception ...
The Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is an area of 8,004 acres (32 km 2) of estuary located in Skagit County.The reserve contains the Breazeale Interpretive Center, which features exhibits about the natural history and ecology of the estuary and bay, fish tanks, a hands-on room and a video theater.
The Swinomish Indian Reservation is located on Fidalgo Island at the north end of Skagit Bay, between Similk Bay and the Swinomish Channel. Skagit Bay mudflats with Goat and Ika Islands History
Puget Sound (/ ˈ p juː dʒ ɪ t / PEW-jit; Lushootseed: x̌ʷəlč IPA: [ˈχʷəlt͡ʃ] WHULCH) [1] [2] is a complex estuarine [5] system of interconnected marine waterways and basins located on the northwest coast of the U.S. state of Washington.
The Swinomish Indian Reservation is the reservation and land body of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. The reservation is located on Puget Sound, on the southeastern side of Fidalgo Island in Skagit County, Washington. [17] It is located on the Swinomish Channel, across from La Conner, Washington. [8]
May 18—SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY — Stop No. 29 for a 24-foot totem pole carved from a 400-year-old cedar tree was the Swinomish reservation on Monday morning. The totem pole's journey ...
Rainbow Bridge connects Fidalgo Island and La Conner, crossing Swinomish Channel in Skagit County, Washington. This is a deck arch bridge made of steel, built in 1957, with a total length of 242.90 metres (796.9 ft) and a main span of 176.80 metres (580.1 ft). [1] There is 75 feet (23 m) of clearance below the bridge, above Swinomish Channel [2]
The Swinomish people (/ ˈ s w ɪ n ə m ɪ ʃ / SWIN-ə-mish; [3] Lushootseed: swədəbš [4]) are a Lushootseed-speaking people Indigenous to western Washington state.. The Tribe lives in the southeastern part of Fidalgo Island in northern Puget Sound, near the San Juan Islands, in Skagit County, Washington.