BlueGull Inn Port Townsend Bed & Breakfast

Salt Creek Tide Pool, Washington

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Many guests stay with us in Port Townsend, and take day trips around the area. One popular spot is Salt Creek Tidal Pool. It’s just over an hour from here, and you can spot all manner of sea life there. Beautiful and educational!

Wooden Boat Festival at Port Townsend

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The biggest festival of the year has to be Wooden Boat. We have guests from all over the world that come here for this event. One year we had over 90 wooden boats in Port Townsend Bay. Port Townsend is one of 3 Victorian Seaports in the USA. There is music and lots of great activites and information on wooden boats. One year we had a battle between 2 ships in the bay.

Point Wilson Lighthouse, Ft. Worden State Park, Port Townsend

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This is the Point Wilson Lighthouse and Coast Guard Station, with Whidbey Island across the water at the entrance to Puget Sound. When the tide is out you can walk all the way around the lighthouse on the beach.

Salt Creek Tide Pool

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Blue Gull Inn, Port Townsend, WA-
We have a great location here on the Olympic Peninsula, and one of the day trips our guests like to make is to Salt Creek. It’s a tide pool, with lots of interesting sea life, like this starfish.