Attention visitors, partners, and friends: Please note the new website domain is https://visitgaribaldi.gov. For those who have links to our website, please replace the .com with .org. The links will then go to the proper locations. What happened to the .com? We lost access to the .com domain. The content on the .org is ours. […]
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Garibaldi is home to caretakers of all Tillamook County estuaries
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 […]