The Puget Sound is an amazing inland sea, stretching approximately 100 miles from Deception Pass south to Olympia. It is also generally considered to include the Washington Coast north to the Canadian border and the waters surrounding the San Juan Islands.
The Puget Sound is now considered to be part of the newly defined Salish Sea, which extends to the north end of the Strait of Georgia and Desolation Sound, and west to the mouth of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. These separately named bodies of water form a single estuarine ecosystem. The Salish Sea is connected to the Pacific Ocean primarily via the Strait of Juan de Fuca and is contained by Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula. In addition to the Gulf and San Juan Islands.
Washington State has some of the prettiest lakes in the world. From huge Lake Washington in Seattle to the hundreds of tiny lakes and even a handful of man-made tournament waterski lakes, Washington has them all.
Most of the larger lakes allow such things as water skiing and jetskis. Most smaller lakes have some restrictions on motor size or speed. All lakes offer some level of fishing. Fisherman and skiers generally get along on these mixed use lakes by allowing fisherman their space in the early morning and evening, with the skiers taking the warmer mid-day times.
