View of Seattle's Salmon Bay looking north from Magnolia, about 1880.
Note the shoreline reaching out on both sides in the middle. Both were dredged to make shipping easier entering the Locks above. On the left, the last of the Shilshole people, Salmon Bay Charlie has his native Salish style house near the tree.
The bay's mouth known as sHulsHoolootSeed was described as 'like shoving thread through a needle'. It had to be accessed at high tide for shipping.
Chutqeedud is the sand spit on the right or Ballard side translated as 'lying curled up,' was known for great clamming.
Read more about this area in Coll Thrush's book Native Seattle.
Rob Casey is author of Kayaking Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands, 60 Trips and Stand Up Paddling Flat Water to Surf and Rivers, both by Mountaineers Books. He owns Salmon Bay Paddle a SUP school in Seattle.
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