Features

Question 1

Budd Inlet –

Answer 1

6 miles long, extends S from Dana, terminates in flats that bare at head of East and West Bays.

Question 2

East Bay and West Bay

Answer 2

obstructed flats and shoals that bare for about .8 mile, channels have been dredged to the Olympia waterfront.

Question 3

Captiol Dome –

Answer 3

WA state capitol building and dome, prominent feature seen from offshore.

Question 4

Radio Tower –

Answer 4

Near the Capitol Dome, prominent feature seen from offshore.

Question 5

Olympia Shoal –

Answer 5

bares, .4 mile from W shore, 3 miles S of entrance, has light on E side of shoal, W side has light marking approach to Olympia Channel.

Question 6

Numerous log booms, piles, dolphins, shoals, houses

Answer 6

on E side of harbor.

Question 7

Port Terminal –

Answer 7

owned and operated by the Port of Olympia.
east side of the turning basin near the head of West Bay;
only deep-draft facility in Olympia Harbor.
1,750-foot face
two container gantry cranes, container toplifts, a rail car switcher and other cargo handling equipment. More than 59 acres of paved open storage is available.

Question 8

Marina –

Answer 8

large marina in East Bay, 77ton lift can handle up to 90’ vessel.

Question 9

Small craft facilities –

Answer 9

many marinas in Olympia, Olympia Yacht Club has moorings at head of West Bay, .3 miles from turning basin.

Question 10

The entrance to Budd Inlet .

Answer 10

is deep except for a 25-foot shoal in the middle of the entrance. The shores are comparatively low and wooded. Depths along the shores of the inlet shoal abruptly on the west side and gradually on the east side.

Question 11

Olympia

Answer 11

the capital of the State of Washington is at the head of East and West bays at the south end of Budd Inlet.

Question 12

A federal project provides for a

Answer 12

30-foot channel from deepwater in Budd Inlet to a 30-foot turning basin off the west side of the port terminal near the head of West Bay—the channel is marked by lighted and unlighted buoys, lights and lighted ranges. Another channel, with a project depth of 13 feet, leads southeast from the 30-foot outer channel to a mooring basin on the east side of the peninsula at the head of East Bay—the channel is marked by lights.

Question 13

A visible wreck,

Answer 13

is near the approach to the dredged entrance channel to Olympia.