Chuckanut Bay

It is situated on the eastern shore of the Salish Sea at the southeast end of Bellingham Bay.

The bay was named Puerto del Socorro by Lieutenant Juan Francisco de Eliza in 1791.

According to anthropologist Allan Richardson and linguist Brent Galloway, the Nooksack name means "beach or tide goes way out", from the root word chúkw, 'be distant, far away' and the suffix -enech, 'at the bottom'.

[3] Alternatively, linguist Wayne Suttles proposed in 2005 that the name Chúkwenet (and its related forms) may be instead originally derived from Northern Straits.

When the yacht club closed in 1946, the clubhouse was moved to LaConner WA and is now a waterfront restaurant there.

The CBCA was initially formed in 1992 to support volunteer firefighters in their district, and continues today as a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the Chuckanut community.

Chuckanut Point near the south end of Chuckanut Bay