The Sunset Bay Wharf is located along a several mile stretch of sandy beach at the widest part of Puget Sound directly across from its entrance to the Pacific Ocean. This means ocean like beaches with ornate driftwood, expansive sand flats, and everyday encounters with marine mammals including seals, otters, porpoises, and sea lions.

It also means crystal clear waters with ocean levels of salinity hosting almost every imaginable cold water marine organism along with copious populations of schooling fish and crab.

In short, the Sunset Bay Wharf is worlds apart from lake based summer programs, as is our mission of helping young people develop the courage, critical thinking, and teamworking skills necessary to safely navigate the natural and human built environments, and to plant the seed for a lifetime of interest and appreciation in the outdoors and our saltwater marine ecosystem.

• Puget Sound is home to literally thousands of seals, porpoises, sea lions, otters, and even pods of resident Orca Whales, and we encounter these marine mammals everyday during the summer months.
• We have the largest warmest sandiest beach on the Sound for beach combing, biking, and exploring the intertidal zone.
• We have a touch tank and saltwater aquarium for up close examination of the many extraordinary types of saltwater marine life. We have paddleboards, kayaks, sailboats, rowboats, Zodiacs, windsurfers, skimboards, beach bikes, miles of beach, overwater zipline and climbing wall, as well as indoor climbing walls, skate ramps, and sport court.