| Tolmie State Park is a 105-acre marine day-use park with 1,800 feet of saltwater shoreline on Puget Sound. This forested park is on Nisqually Beach, a few miles from Olympia, the state's capital city. The park offers a variety of beachside activities and an underwater park built by scuba divers. Such beachside and water activities include beach combing, swimming, fishing, clamming, crabbing, diving, and boating. Besides the beach related activities there is also an abundant amount of wildlife that can be viewed. The wildlife includes coyotes, deer, elk, rabbits, raccoons, chipmunks, and squirrels Marine wildlife that can be viewed includes seals, whales, shellfish, crabs, clams, and eels. Bird watching is a very good sport that visitors can get involved with at the park. The massive variety of birds includes crows, ravens, ducks, eagles, geese, gulls, hawks, herons, hummingbirds, jays, ospreys, owls, woodpeckers, and wrens. Displays on the beach and in the upper picnic areas describe the evolution/ecology of the shoreline and the history of the park. The park provides two kitchen shelters with electricity, plus 11 sheltered and 20 unsheltered picnic tables. Kitchen shelters include picnic tables, water, sinks and grills. The park is named for Dr. William Frazer Tolmie (1812-1866) who spent 16 years with the Hudson Bay Company at Fort Nisqually as a physician, surgeon, botonist and fur trader. |
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