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North Beach, Port Townsend

Agate beach or gravel Documented siteLegal to collect

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Agates and jasperAgates and jasper

Also reported: orbicular porphyry pebbles.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Teerui (Public domain).

Why this spot

Glacial-bluff beach on the Strait feeding fresh gravel to the strand toward McCurdy Point

Popular Puget Sound agate walk in local guides.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

bluff slides, tides

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