Ride the Flow: 4 Salish Sea Tidal Streams for Paddlers

Learn where to get a free ride from tidal current on the Salish Sea

When my students ask me how about tidal current on Puget Sound, I tell them the Sound is just a slow river. This means the current in most areas flows 1 to 3 knots with no rapids creating eddies behind points of land, buildings and rocks.

Unlike a river, the Salish Sea has tides with two ebbs and two floods each flowing for 6 hours. Read my post A Be…