Westport waterfront and fishing fleet
— — a working dock that still smells of salt and diesel.
Not only on a wall.
“The Westport waterfront on the south side of Grays Harbor, with the charter and commercial fleet rafted along Float 6 and the marina jetty running out toward the harbour entrance. Boats come in heavy through the fall salmon and tuna runs, gulls work the cleaning tables, and the docks stay busy from before light until the morning fog lifts. The Westport-South Beach maritime museum sits a few blocks back from the water. This is one of the last working fishing towns on the outer Washington coast. from the studio
Westport waterfront and fishing fleet, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Westport is a small coastal city of about 2,200 year-round residents in Grays Harbor County, Washington, occupying the tip of a sandy peninsula on the south side of the entrance to Grays Harbor. The Westport Marina is operated by the Port of Grays Harbor and is the largest coastal marina between San Francisco and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, with more than 600 commercial and recreational slips. The town markets itself as the salmon capital of Washington and is also a major Dungeness crab and albacore tuna port. State Route 105 runs in from the south through Twin Harbors.
Grays Harbor is a large shallow estuary at the mouth of the Chehalis River, draining about 2,500 square miles of southwest Washington into the Pacific. The harbour entrance is marked by twin jetties; the south jetty runs nearly two miles from the Westport shore and shelters the marina from the prevailing northwest swell. Commercial and charter crews chase coho and Chinook salmon from June through September, albacore tuna in late summer, and Dungeness crab through the cooler months. The Coast Guard maintains a station at the marina because the bar crossing can run dangerous when wind opposes tide.
The marina sits at the north end of town, with the observation tower at the end of Float 20 giving the easiest panoramic view of the working fleet and the harbour mouth. Charter offices line Westhaven Drive; the salmon and tuna seasons are the busiest. The Westport Maritime Museum, in the 1939 former Coast Guard station a few blocks back from the water, displays the original Grays Harbor lighthouse lens and is open most afternoons in season. Paid parking applies along the dock; the boardwalk north to Westhaven State Park is a fifteen-minute walk.