 Picture Courtesy of Washington State Department of Transportation
On May 2, 1792, the intrepid English explorer, Captain George Vancouver, in search of a Northwest passage, sailed his sloop Discovery and the armed tender Chatham down the Strait of Juan De Fuca and into this sheltered harbor. This bay Vancouver named Port Discovery for his ship, and the small island guarding the entrance he appropriately called Protection Island. While at anchor here Vancouver set out in small boats for further exploration of this vicinity and discovered nearby the harbor of Port Townsend, so named by him for the Marquis of Townshend.
SR101, About 2 miles west of Gardiner on the Pacific Coast Scenic Byway. Jefferson County Washington
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