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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.
From east to west, it incorporates Union Bay, the Montlake Cut, Portage Bay, Lake Union, the Fremont Cut, Salmon Bay, and Shilshole Bay. The southern half of Seattle is itself divided by Seattle's largest river, the Duwamish River, which empties into the south end of Elliott Bay as the industrialized Duwamish
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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Ballard is a neighborhood in northwestern Seattle, Washington, United States.Formerly an independent city, the City of Seattle's official boundaries define it as bounded to the north by Crown Hill (N.W. 85th Street), to the east by Greenwood, Phinney Ridge and Fremont (along 3rd Avenue N.W.), to the south by the Lake Washington Ship Canal, and to the west by Puget Sound's Shilshole Bay. [1]
Before the construction of the Ship Canal, Salmon Bay was entirely salt water and subject to the tides. [1] The bay was the permanent home of the Shilshole people, a Lushootseed-speaking people closely related to the Duwamish. The Lushootseed name of the bay is šilšul, which is the origin of the name of the Shilshole people (šilšulabš). [2]
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