Sunset looking west from Seattle over Elliott Bay on a clear, unseasonably warm February evening
Elliott Bay
Downtown Seattle curves around Elliott Bay, which leads into Puget Sound. If you're so inclined, you can take a boat up the Sound into the Salish Sea, from where you can continue north to Vancouver or west into the Pacific. There are almost always container ships in the Bay, as well as ferries heading out from Seattle to Kitsap County and beyond. Cruise ships to Canada and Alaska also leave from the piers downtown.
From Belltown, where we live, the sun sets west across Puget Sound behind Bainbridge Island: the mountains in the background might be the Olympus mountains, but we haven't ventured out there yet...