Wilson Lighthouse, an octagonal tower on fog-signal building. The light is fixed white, with red flash of 2 seconds' duration every 20 seconds. The fog signal is a horn (blast 4 seconds, silent 26 seconds). The former siren was reported to be difficult to hear in certain directions close by it. A radiobeacon is maintained at the station.

Shoals extend 1⁄2 mile northwestward of Point Wilson to the 5-fathom (9.1 m) curve, over irregular bottom; these are generally indicated by kelp. The eastern edge of the shoals rises rather abruptly from deep water. A buoy is placed off the foul ground in 7 fathoms (12.8 m) 34 mile 312° true (WNW. % W. mag.) from Point Wilson Lighthouse. Heavy tide rips extend northward of these shoals, being especially heavy with a westerly wind and ebb

current.

The area in the vicinity of the buoy was examined by the wire drag in 1925 and no obstructions were found. The sunken rock formerly shown there was expunged from the chart.

In approaching Point Wilson in thick or foggy weather the lead should be kept going, especially if the fog signal is not heard. Port Townsend is described under a separate heading following. Marrowstone Point, the eastern point at the entrance to Port Townsend, is low at its extremity but rises abruptly to a bluff about 120 feet (37 m) high. The eastern extremity of the point is marked by a light. There are wharves on both sides of the point about 1/2 mile from the light. The northern wharf is abandoned and in bad repair. The southern wharf has 20 feet (6.1 m) of water alongside at mean lower low water. Submarine telegraph cables are laid northwestward and southeastward from locations near the point.

Marrowstone Point Lighthouse, a small square structure, shows a group flashing white (flash 2.5 seconds, eclipse 1 second, flash 2.5 seconds, eclipse 4 seconds), 28 feet (8.5 m) above high water and visible 11 miles. The fog signal is a reed horn sounding a group of 3 blasts every 30 seconds.

Foulweather Bluff, immediately west of which lies the entrance to Hood Canal, is one of the most prominent cliffs in Puget Sound. The northern face, which is bare, is 1/2 mile broad and consists of vertical, grayish sand and clay bluffs 225 feet (69 m) high, sloping off on the eastern side to a bluff 40 feet (12.2 m) high, but on the Hood Canal side the point is steep and high. At the top of the bluff is a growth of fir and underbrush. The 20-fathom (37 m) curve lies about 3/4 mile, and depths of less than 6 fathoms (11 m) are nearly 11⁄2 mile northward of the head. There are several boulders exposed at low tide within 100 yards northward of the highest part of the bluff, and sunken boulders are reported as reaching 200 yards eastward from the end, and in line with the face of the bluff. If overtaken by fog, temporary anchorage may be had 1⁄2 mile northward of Foulweather Bluff, in not less than 10 fathoms (18.3 m).

At times there are tide rips north of and around Foulweather Bluff sufficiently heavy to be dangerous to small craft and to break up log rafts. This is most pronounced when the ebb current from the main body of Puget Sound meets that of Hood Canal off the point, and particularly so with the ebb against a strong northerly or northwesterly wind.

Port Ludlow and Hood Canal are described under separate headings following.

Hansville, 22 miles eastward of Foulweather Bluff, is a post village of 105 inhabitants (1930 census). There is a landing wharf built out to 12 feet (3.7 m) at mean lower low water. It is connected with the highway system of Bainbridge Island and is served by small passenger and freight vessels. Norwegian Point, low and rounding, lies 1/4 mile northwestward of Hansville. The bight between Foulweather Bluff and Norwegian Point is locally known as Skunk Bay.

Point No Point, on the west shore of the sound 32 miles eastward from Foulweather Bluff, is a low sand spit marked with a lighthouse and fog-signal station. The light, shown from a white square tower, is group flashing white (3 flashes every 10 seconds), and the fog signal is a reed horn (blast 3 seconds, silent 3 seconds, blast 3 seconds, silent 21 seconds). Boulders extend about 200 yards from high water line 214 miles southward from Point No Point.

Eglon is a small post village of 25 inhabitants (1930 census) 3 miles southward of Point No Point. It has a landing wharf in poor condition, but still used by small freight and passenger vessels. There was a submerged broken piling about 3 feet off the middle of the dock face in 1933. The water southward of the wharf is shoal, and vessels approach from and back away to the northward.

Apple Cove Point is a low sand spit projecting 220 yards from the high, wooded land 6 miles southward of Point No Point. It has some houses upon it. It is steep-to at the point, but a shoal makes out nearly 2 mile southeastward from it. Just off the point there is a white flashing light on a pile dolphin.

Apple Tree Cove is the open bight on the west side of the sound 111⁄2 miles southward of Apple Cove Point. It affords anchorage in 5 to 10 fathoms (9.1 to 18.3 m) inside the line of the points, with some shelter from winds drawing in or out of the sound, but not from northward and southeast.

Kingston, population 175 (1930 census), is a post town on the north side of the cove. It has a combination landing wharf and ferry slip, built out to 6 feet (1.8 m). A small freight vessel stops here, and there are several daily trips of an automobile ferry from Edmonds.

Landmark. There is an electric power plant with a prominent lighted sign 314 miles southward from Apple Cove Point. From here a submarine cable crosses to Richmond Beach, on the eastern shore. Shoal water extends nearly 1/4 mile from high water line off the power plant.

Port Madison (chart 6443) is on the western shore of Puget Sound, 12 miles southward of Point No Point. It is included between the northern end of Bainbridge Island and Point Jefferson, and is 21⁄2 miles in length, with an average width of 2 miles. The depths range from over 80 fathoms (146 m) at the entrance to 20 fathoms (37 m) less than 1/2 mile from the beach, but the port affords anchorage closer inshore in 15 to 16 fathoms (27.4 to 29.3 m), sticky bottom. In the southwestern part it connects with Port Orchard through Agate Passage.

The north shore is formed by broken white bluffs, with low beaches between, and bordered by sand and shingle beaches, bare at low water

in some cases for a distance of nearly 1/4 mile. The bluffs on the western shore are moderately low; the buildings of the Indian reservation near the entrance to Agate Passage are prominent. There is a wharf built out to 14 feet (4.3 m), and Suquamish, population 697 (1930 census), is located there. An automobile ferry from Ballard makes several daily stops, and a small passenger and freight vessel from Seattle calls daily. Kitsap and Indianola, population 100 and 154 (1930 census) are two small villages on the north shore of Port Madison 2 miles westward of Point Jefferson. The post office is at Kitsap. There is a store, highway filling station, and a landing wharf built out to 17 feet (5.2 m). A small freight and passenger vessel from Seattle calls here. The southern shore is composed of broken bluffs, except where it is indented by the narrow arm extending southward about 1 mile, on which is situated the town of Port Madison. Point Monroe, the southern point at the entrance, is a low, narrow, sand spit, curving westward and southward and marked by a light.

The entrance to the inlet leading to the town of Port Madison is about 3/4 mile westward of the light. The town, population 576 (1930 census), has become a summer resort for a large number of Seattle residents. The channel in entering is narrow, with a least depth of 9 feet (2.7 m), and local knowledge is necessary to keep in the best water. There is a wharf built out from the east shore about 400 yards inside the entrance with a depth of 12 feet (3.7 m) alongside. There is an old ballast dump nearly bare at low water extending on both sides of the wharf approximately parallel to the beach, with its outer limit about 60 feet inside the face of the wharf. A small freight and passenger vessel from Seattle calls here. Care should be taken to avoid the cluster of sunken rocks about 100 yards off the eastern side of the entrance. The old mill wharf is in ruins. There are several landings for launches in the inlet. Sheltered anchorage for small craft may be had in depths up to 32 fathoms (6.4 m), mud bottom.

The approach to Port Madison Harbor has been examined by the wire drag and found free from obstructions.

Murden Cove is an open bight, 134 miles across, on the west side of the sound 3 miles southward of Point Monroe. It has a flat % mile broad at the head which bares at low tide, and outside of it the depth increases rapidly to 15 fathoms (27.4 m) on the line of the points. Skiff Point, on the north side, has low, yellow bluffs to the southward. A shoal extends 250 yards or more from Skiff Point. This shoal is reported to be building out and should, therefore, be given a wide berth. Yemoalt Point, on the south, is a low, grassy, sand spit 150 yards broad, rising gradually to the general level of the high land. Manitou Beach (Rollingbay P.O.), population 530 (1930 census), is a community of summer homes on the northern shore of Murden Cove. There are two wharves connected at their inner ends with a depth of 10 feet (3.0 m) at the southwestern one. Moran Junior College, with prominent white buildings and a private landing wharf with 14 feet (4.3 m) alongside, is located on the northern side of Skiff Point. There is a group of summer homes, with a landing wharf a short distance northwestward from the college wharf.

Ferncliffe and Yemoalt are communities of summer homes with wharves built out to 11-foot (3.4 m) depths. They are 1 mile and 3% mile, respectively, northwestward from Yemoalt Point. There is a small wharf for a Y.W.C.A. camp with a depth of 12 feet (3.7 m) alongside, 1 mile northwestward from Yemoalt Point.

Eagle Harbor is described under a separate heading on page 285. Blakely Harbor (chart 6444) is a small inlet situated on the eastern shore of Bainbridge Island near its southern end. It is about 1 mile in length and at the entrance nearly 1/2 mile wide, narrowing to the head. The depths range from 18 fathoms (33 m) at the entrance to 32 fathoms (6.4 m) near the head. The usual anchorage is near the entrance in 9 to 16 fathoms (16.5 to 29.3 m), sticky bottom, slightly favoring the southern shore. There are many old pilings and dolphins in the shoal waters near the shores. Port Blakely, a post village of 100 inhabitants (1930 census), on the north shore, near the head of Blakely Harbor, has a store and a highway filling station. There is a ferry slip on the north shore about 1/4 mile from the entrance. An automobile ferry from Seattle makes several daily stops. In former years Port Blakely was an important lumber port. The mills and wharves and most of the houses have been town down.

Blakely Rock is prominent in approaching; it lies 5% mile northward of Restoration Point and at high water shows about 15 feet (4.6 m) at its highest point. It is 300 yards in extent, with shoal water, well marked by kelp, extending over 250 yards northward. The rock is marked by a flashing red light.

Directions are not needed for entering Blakely Harbor. Blakely Rock may be passed on either side but, if passing northward of it, should be given a berth of not less than 1/4 mile.

Restoration Point is flat and about 10 feet (3 m) above high water for 300 yards, beyond which it rises abruptly to a wooded knoll about 100 feet (30.5 m) high, on which a number of large buildings are prominent. The Seattle-Port Blakely ferry calls at the country club landing located on the north side of Restoration Point 12 mile from its extremity. A submarine cable extends from Restoration Point eastward to Alki Point.

Decatur Reef, partly bare at low water, extends 300 yards eastward from Restoration Point. The reef is marked by a lighted bell buoy off its outer end in 10 fathoms (18.3 m).

PORT TOWNSEND

(chart 6405) lies immediately southward of Point Wilson, and has its entrance between Point Hudson and Marrowstone Point. It extends in a general south-southwest direction for 21⁄2 miles, with a least width of 111⁄2 miles, and then turns southeastward for 3 miles, with a reduced width, to its head. Inside Point Hudson the depths range from 15 to 8 fathoms (27.4 to 14.6 m) to Port Hadlock, at the head of the bay. It is an excellent harbor with good anchorage throughout and easily entered. The prevailing winds in summer are west to southwest, and in winter generally in the southeastern quadrant. Southeasterly gales, sweeping up the long expanse of Hood Canal and across the low land at the head of the bay and at the ends of Kilisut Harbor into Port Townsend, are at times severe.

Point Hudson, on the western shore, about 134 miles southeastward from Point Wilson is low and sandy. Its extremity is marked by an unwatched occulting white light (light 3 seconds, eclipse 2 seconds). The fog signal is a reed horn, 2 unequal blasts every 20 seconds. Two Government wharves are located 1/4 mile southward from Point Wilson. There is a depth of 20 feet (6.1 m) at the northern and 25 feet (7.6 m) at the southern wharf at mean lower low water. Northward of Point Hudson shoals make out for nearly 1/4 mile, the outer limits being marked by a buoy.

Marrowstone Point, the eastern point at the entrance, is described on page 254.

Midchannel Bank extends northwestward from Marrowstone Point about 2 miles toward Point Wilson, with depths varying from 534 to 10 fathoms (10.4 to 18.3 m).

Kilisut Harbor is a narrow inlet extending 4 miles in a southeasterly direction, with an average width of 11⁄2 mile; the entrance is 22 miles westward of Marrowstone Point. The channel entering is winding, with a least depth of about 11 feet (3.4 m); inside good anchorage is afforded in 4 to 5 fathoms (7.3 to 9.1 m). At the southern end it connects at high water with Oak Bay, a small cove opening into Admiralty Inlet. This inlet is little used and local knowledge is necessary to enter.

Port Townsend, the principal town, with a population of 3,979 (1930 census), is situated on the western shore immediately southward and westward of Point Hudson. It is a port of entry for Puget Sound. The depths at the wharves are ample.

A large paper mill is located 21/4 miles southwestward from Point Hudson in the bight locally known as "Glenn Cove." There is a wharf for ocean vessels. An area from the wharf to deep water has been dredged to a depth of 30 feet (9.1 m) at mean lower low water. The northeastern end of the dredged area is marked by a black spar buoy. A lighted range for approaching the wharf has been established. This plant, with large white building and tall stacks, is the most prominent landmark, and the chief industry in the bay.

Irondale, on the western shore about 1 mile from the head of the bay, is the site of an abandoned iron mill. The old mill and buildings are prominent, but only a few piles mark the site of the former wharf. Shoal water extends 1/4 mile from shore for nearly 11⁄2 mile northwestward of the mill. About 1/4 mile northwestward of the mill there is a long wharf owned by a fish company.

Hadlock, a post village of 200 inhabitants (1930 census), at the head of the harbor, formerly exported considerable lumber. The sawmill has burned. There is a landing wharf, but in 1933 there were submerged pilings off the wharf, and local knowledge was necessary to avoid them. A small passenger and freight vessel stops here.

Oak Bay is connected with the head of Port Townsend by a channel dredged 75 feet wide and 15 feet (4.6 m) deep, with jetties at the south end. The channel is subject to considerable shoaling. In December 1932 the channel was redredged to project depth. The controlling depth in August 1934 was 14 feet (4.3 m). It is marked by a fixed red entrance light near the north end of the chan