Sequim Bay is a bay in northwestern

Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...

, on the

Olympic Peninsula The Olympic Peninsula is a large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the ...

. The bay is on the

Strait of Juan de Fuca The Strait of Juan de Fuca (officially named Juan de Fuca Strait in Canada) is a body of water about long that is the Salish Sea's outlet to the Pacific Ocean. The international boundary between Canada and the United States runs down the centre ...

of the

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

and is located east of

Sequim, Washington Sequim ( ) is a city in Clallam County, Washington, United States. It is located along the Dungeness River near the base of the Olympic Mountains. The 2010 United States Census, 2010 census counted a population of 6,606. Sequim lies within the ra ...

and north of Blyn. Sequim Bay is about long and slightly over wide at the mouth. The name "Sequim" comes from a Native American word for "quiet water," as two large, overlapping

sandbars In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface. It o ...

protect the bay.

Sequim Bay State Park Sequim Bay State Park is a public recreation area covering on the Puget Sound side of the Olympic Peninsula in Clallam County, Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of t ...

is located on the shore of Sequim Bay.

References

* Bays of Washington (state) Bodies of water of Clallam County, Washington Washington placenames of Native American origin {{ClallamCountyWA-geo-stub