Many people get to see marinas with yachts and other pleasure boats.  These are a few pictures of the working water front in Bellingham.

This is one of two floating drydocks at the shipyard on the southside of Bellingham.  If you look closely, you'll see one of the peaks in the Canadian Rockies just to the left of the drydock.

Research vessel checking on the conditions of eel grass beds, prime herring spawning habitat.

The Bellingham fishing fleet has to go far and wide to make a living these days.  Since the decline of local salmon runs, the local boats go to Alaska, Oregon, California.  They fish halibut, herring roe, crabs (Dungeness), rock cod, ling cod and any other species there is a market for.  Each species requires its own license and is heavily regulated, with limited seasonal openings.  If a boat isn't ready, it could miss the opening.  That is why you see people working on the boats at all times.  They have to be kept ready to go at all times.

More fishing boats.

Net lockers for storage of various nets, crab pots, etc.

This is a bonus photo.  The weather cleared today so the mountain was out.  This is Mt. Baker, taken from the Squalicum Marina, Bellingham, Washington.

I hope you enjoy this small slice of Bellingham, Washington workaday world.

Thanks for looking.

David Helm

www.helmhomeinspections.com