Views of Sequim, the Olympic Peninsula. . .and beyond
There’s a new bridge across the marsh near where the old Three Crabs Restaurant was located. In fact, the road that led to the Three Crabs is now gone. Three Crabs Road now curves to the east, across the water shown in this shot. The new bridge is in between the picket railings in this photo, taken on one of our wet and gloomy December days. I wasn’t able to return to the spot where I shot work underway in this post last October. I’ll try for another shot in better weather.
The old Three Crabs Restaurant is history. The building foundation is gone and the ground is scraped flat. Across the street a new road up and over the marshland is being built. Beyond the photo to the right there is a gap in the raised soil to let river water flow through.
This is about all that’s left of the 3 Crabs Restaurant, once a local institution. It was one of those seafood joints that earned a place on the map, especially for tourists coming to the Olympic Peninsula. It was open for nearly 60 years until it was sold in 2012 to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for wetlands restoration. The 3 Crabs sat on a very nice 52-acre parcel. It is at the shoreline of Dungeness Bay, just beyond the line of shrubbery in the distance.
A sidewalk into the restaurant still slices across the land, going nowhere. And there is a line of risers, probably for the septic system. These and the foundation shown here will eventually be excavated and removed.
This is what it looked like shortly after it shuttered for good. The sign is gone from the front of the building. I suspect it was sold to a souvenir hunter with fond memories of the place.