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.
