Port Gamble was the heart of the Pope and Talbot lumber empire in the 1800s. As we learned at the good little museum up in town, wood shipped from these docks built parts of Seattle and its suburbs.

1. The car ferry landing is the only old dock that still has any deck. Its ramp is missing. On modern docks the ramp is a steel plate, so I'm guessing it was taken for scrap (or it might have fallen off and be resting on the bottom of the bay).

In the background you can see another deck amid the forest of piles. This is a narrow modern dock that we followed out amongst them to its broken end.

2. The underside of the ferry landing. Light from holes in the deck suggested to us that exploring it via telephoto lens would be a wise choice.



3. The hand-powered winch for raising and lowering the ramp. My brother, a ferry enthusiast, commented that it must be a pretty old dock; an electric winch would be normal here.


4. Another winch, on the beach. It still has rope or cable in it.

Awesome pictures! I haven't been through Port Gamble in several years, and remember it as a picturesque little town.

Also, the film ZMD: Zombies Of Mass Destruction was filmed in Port Gamble a few years ago.