Sequim Bay State Park is a year-round, 92-acre marine camping park with 4,909 feet of saltwater coast in the Sequim “rainshadow,” just inside Puget Sound on the Olympic Peninsula. The bay is calm, the air is dry and interpretive opportunities await visitors. For the past century, the word “Sequim” was believed by many to mean “quiet waters.” In 2010, a tribal linguist who is an expert in the study of dying languages determined the translation was wrong. The correct translation of “Sequim” is a “place for going to shoot,” a reference to the Sequim-Dungeness Valley’s once great elk and waterfowl hunting.