slgwv's photos with the keyword: Puget Sound

A view from a small park on Puget Sound, looking back northeasterly. Washington state, USA. The bridge connects the Kitsap Peninsula with the city of Tacoma and so crosses salt water. Its predecessor is notorious as the suspension bridge that flew apart in a high wind, back in 1940, due to inadequate damping for certain resonances. The bridge was rebuilt in 1950, using the foundations of the original but otherwise new. A second, parallel bridge opened in 2008. It now carries southbound traffic, while northbound traffic uses the original. The new bridge is the nearer to the camera viewpoint.

A passenger/automobile ferry crossing Puget Sound from Edmonds (north of Seattle) to Kingston, on the Kitsap Peninsula, Washington state, USA. The Washington State Dept. of Transportation, WSDOT, operates the largest ferry fleet in the US and one of the largest in the world. It plies the waters of Puget Sound, so that effectively many of the communities around the Sound are part of the Seattle metropolitan area. We're looking across from MV Walla Walla, which is going the other way. Btw, Puyallup is a small city southeast of Seattle and Walla Walla is a city in southeastern Washington very near the Oregon line. Both names are of Native American origin.