Start your day with a hike in the Olympics. End it with a fine meal in elegant surroundings. That’s Hood Canal life.

Hood Canal is a recreation paradise, with calm waters and never ending inlets to explore, and a full menu of on-water recreation, sailing, boating, water skiing, boarding, fishing, crabbing, shrimping and combing the beaches for Hood Canal clams and oysters. Here are a few relevant websites that give you a taste for what’s waiting for you on the relaxed side of Puget Sound.