Featured Image: Three Graces, photo courtesy of TEP While sports fishermen, paddlers and clammers spend countless hours playing in and along the edges of local bays, to the people behind the Tillamook Estuaries Partnership the health and future of local waterways, as well as the fun they can provide to human beings, are serious business. The nonprofit group, […]
Garibaldi harbor combines recreation with working port for a vibrant atmosphere
Featured image: Seafood businesses line the docks at the harbor in Garibaldi. (Photo by LeeAnn Neal) Few towns on the Oregon coast offer as many marine-related businesses in one location as Garibaldi does at its harbor. Owned and maintained by the Port of Garibaldi, the harbor and adjacent land are home to three restaurants, two fresh […]
Garibaldi Maritime Museum: Captain Robert Gray would have been proud
Captain Robert Gray reportedly died at sea in 1806, most likely succumbing to yellow fever, never knowing that his exploits in the Pacific Northwest would one day make him famous. If only he had known that one day, the Tillamook County city of Garibaldi would celebrate him by naming a mountain after him, placing a […]
Foraging pays off in clams and sea vegetables along Tillamook Bay in Garibaldi
With a little patience and some rudimentary knowledge of shellfish and sea vegetables, anyone can successfully forage for dinner along Tillamook Bay. The Tillamook Indians, who maintained a village along Tillamook Bay, harvested shellfish and edible roots and sea vegetables year-round, collecting their food in baskets they wove from cedar bark fibers. The process is […]
Garibaldi on Tillamook Bay offers sports fishing and crabbing opportunities year-round
With five rivers flowing into it from the north, east and south, Tillamook Bay serves as what many consider one of the best inlet fishing and crabbing destinations on the West Coast. And with Garibaldi the closest deep sea harbor to Portland, the bay is also among the more convenient. Even better, a variety of […]