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Shilshole Bay Marina is a 1400-slip [1] saltwater marina in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, operated by the Port of Seattle.The marina is protected by a 4,000-foot (1,200 m) breakwater, [1] features a roughly 1-mile (1.6 km) public promenade with view of the Olympic Mountains, and includes Leif Erikson Plaza, site of a 16-foot (4.9 m) [2] statue of the Viking Leif Erikson.
Shilshole Bay is the part of Puget Sound east of a line drawn northeasterly from Seattle's West Point in the southwest to its Golden Gardens Park in the northeast. On its shores lie Discovery Park , the Lawton Wood section of the Magnolia neighborhood, the neighborhood of Ballard , and Golden Gardens Park.
This is a list of bays in the United States. See also Category:Bays of the United States. ... Shilshole Bay; Skagit Bay; Semiahmoo Bay; Union Bay; Willapa Bay; Wisconsin.
One of the longest-lasting legacies of the war years was the comprehensive May 1, 1944 renumbering of all of Seattle's Elliott Bay piers into a single system encompassing the bay. [29] [30] While the War years were a boom time for Seattle and its port, the immediate postwar years were not.
The locks can elevate a 760-by-80-foot (232 m × 24 m) vessel 26 ft (7.9 m), from the level of Puget Sound at a very low tide to the level of freshwater Salmon Bay, in 10–15 minutes. The locks handle both pleasure boats and commercial vessels, ranging from kayaks to fishing boats returning from the Bering Sea to cargo ships. Over 1 million ...
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The lower portion of the park is divided between wetland marsh and beach (on Puget Sound), and situated north of the Shilshole Bay Marina. It also has dunes and large grassy areas. Golden Gardens has exceptional views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains across the sound. The water is very cold for swimming even in summers.
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