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PUGET SOUND, Washington (CNN) -- The Puget Sound slices into northwestern Washington from the Strait of Juan de Fuca, diving some 100 miles (160 kilometers) into the state.

The fishing is good here, lumber is a prime industry. And shipping -- the sound shimmers past Everett, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia and Bremerton, ports resting on the banks of the 2,000 square-mile (5,200-kilometer) inlet. The water's deep, too -- 180 to 925 feet (55 to 282 meters), giving easy access to the largest ships.

Or the smallest.

In 1993, the Cascadia Marine Trail was officially designated in the sound, a water trail that now rolls 150 miles (242 km) from Olympia to the Canadian border. More than 35 camping sites grace the trail for kayakers and canoeists, along with a number of innkeeper partners who provide a night indoors for the small boater.

CNN videographer Tim Wahl took a camera and a kayak out into the sound with a pair of native guides -- Joel Rogers, author of "Watertrail: the Hidden Path through Puget Sound," and Richard Strickland, a professor of oceanography at the University of Washington. Here's a video journal of their trip.