7 inlets services

About 7 inlets services

Before first light over Oakland Bay, when the tide is out and the mudflats hold whatever cold gathered overnight, 7 Inlets Services is already working driveways along the water side of town. Shelton sits where half a dozen fingers of salt water reach into the hills, and each one breathes its own damp chill onto the roads above it. The crew clears driveways and walkways down to bare gravel and lays down ice melt before the school buses start their routes. There's a hush to this stretch of shoreline in a cold snap, no gulls working yet, just the scrape of a shovel and the tide easing back in. It's steady work, a clear path to the door while the bay outside is still deciding what kind of morning this will be.