Harbor Days is an annual festival where tugboats return to the southernmost tip of Puget Sound for three days of entertainment, food, art, history, and a last farewell to the summer. Vintage, working and retired tugboats are moored at Olympia's Percival Landing. Many of them are open for tour on Saturday of the festival. On Sunday the tugs leave shore to participate in the Annual Harbor Days Tugboat Races, out in the deep channel of the bay.
My mom, dad and son Jordan joined me down at Percivals Landing to see the tugboats and visit the many local artists booths. We got to tour the 100 year old tugboat that has been restored by the South Sound Maritime Heritage Association and is docked at the harbor. The South Sound Maritime Heritage Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and public awareness of the Southern Puget Sound's maritime history. There is a rich heritage to the sights, sounds, and events that have taken place along the banks and in the channel of Budd Bay and points north. From the early ferry boats that linked Olympia to Seattle, to the working waterfront that helped launch Washington State's economy, the South Sound left many stories to tell, and memories to protect
