Washington State Ferry crossing Puget Sound
— — a city slipping behind a wake.
Not only on a wall.
“A green-and-white Washington State Ferry working its way across Puget Sound, the downtown Seattle skyline thinning behind the stern, the Olympic Peninsula coming up slowly off the bow. The Seattle to Bainbridge run is the busiest crossing in the system and the one most people picture: thirty-five minutes of open water, gulls trailing the deck, the Olympics catching the afternoon light to the west. The boats run all year and most hours of the day. from the studio
Washington State Ferry crossing Puget Sound, on ceramic.
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Washington State Ferries is the largest ferry operator in the United States, carrying about 19 million passengers a year across Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands on ten routes and twenty terminals. The Seattle to Bainbridge Island crossing is the system's busiest, a roughly 8.6-nautical-mile run that takes about thirty-five minutes between Colman Dock at Pier 52 in downtown Seattle and Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge. The agency is operated by the Washington State Department of Transportation and is considered part of the state highway system.
Puget Sound is a complex estuarine system reaching south from the Strait of Juan de Fuca, with the central basin running between Seattle and the Kitsap Peninsula at depths greater than 200 metres in places. The crossing carries the boat past Bainbridge's wooded south shore and gives a clear view, on a fair day, of Mount Rainier to the south and the Olympic Range to the west. Orcas of the southern resident population travel the sound seasonally; harbour seals are common alongside the ferry lanes. The water reads green more often than blue.
Walk-on passengers board at Colman Dock at Pier 52, a short walk from Pioneer Square; vehicle traffic queues from Alaskan Way. The Seattle to Bainbridge run operates roughly from 5 a.m. to 1 a.m., with sailings about every fifty minutes during the day. Fares are collected westbound only; the return trip is free. Sunset crossings in mid-summer face west into the Olympics and are the local favourite, though winter mornings with low fog over the sound are quieter and arguably the more painterly view.