A one block street of small shops runs down to a marina, dressed as the fictional Sowell Bay for Netflix's Remarkably Bright Creatures.
What Deep Cove looks like
runs one block from Panorama Drive down to the water, lined with small storefronts under low peaked roofs. A general store near the foot of the street sits in a building that dates to around 1908, one of the oldest structures still standing on the block. Awning-covered shopfronts sit close to the sidewalk, with parking angled along the curb.
At the bottom of the street the road opens onto a marina full of moored sailboats and motor yachts, framed by the low clubhouse of a yacht club. spreads along the shoreline with open lawns and a pebble beach. Picnic tables sit under the trees at its edge, and a public dock runs out from the park into the cove.
Behind the shops, fir forest and bare granite rise steeply from the water on three sides of the village. A trail from the village climbs to , a granite outcrop looking down over the inlet. The cove is narrow and steep sided, with calm water and the far shore mostly unbroken forest.
Most of the buildings on the street are one and two storeys, with wood siding visible on some of the storefronts. Signs are hand lettered or simple placards rather than internally lit boxes. Boats of every size fill the water beyond the dock, from small aluminum runabouts to two-mast sailboats riding at anchor.
Shot in Deep Cove
Netflix's Remarkably Bright Creatures dressed a vacant storefront on Gallant Avenue for the fictional town of Sowell Bay, with a real coffee shop across the street standing in as a paddleboard rental. The BBC America series The Intruders and the Hallmark series Cedar Cove both used the same street and waterfront in earlier years.
The Intruders, 2014
Gallant Avenue
The BBC America series The Intruders filmed scenes on Gallant Avenue in 2014, along the same one block run of shops between Panorama Drive and Banbury Road. The production shot on the street itself rather than a set built elsewhere, working around the storefronts and parked cars.
Cedar Cove, 2013
Panorama Park and the government dock
Played the fictional town of Cedar Cove, Cedar Cove, Washington (fictional), present day
Cedar Cove shot Judge Olivia riding a bike through Panorama Park in 2013, then moved to the pebble beach for a scene of her walking with the character Jack. Later shots that same day moved onto the government dock nearby.
Remarkably Bright Creatures, 2026
Played the Sowell Bay Aquarium and the Wild Tide paddleboard shop, Sowell Bay, Washington (fictional), present day
Remarkably Bright Creatures dressed a vacant Olympus Realty storefront on Gallant Avenue as a film set. Sorry Coffee stood in as the fictional Wild Tide paddleboard shop, while across the street stayed undressed as itself. The Deep Cove Yacht Club's exterior was digitally altered for the Sowell Bay Aquarium, and the government dock nearby carried a prop bench and streetlight for the character Tova.
What Deep Cove can double for
Poulsbo, Washington
Front Street in Poulsbo runs along Liberty Bay in the same one block shape, with small shops backed by forested hills and a marina at the foot of the street. The scale and the distance from shop row to water are close to a direct match. Poulsbo's storefronts carry more paint and gingerbread trim, so a wider lens reads the difference. Tight shopfront inserts hold the illusion better. Try searching small marina shops now.
Gig Harbor, Washington
Gig Harbor's waterfront strip faces a working marina backed by a wooded bluff, with fishing boats and pleasure craft moored together much as they are here. The shops sit a little farther back from the water than on Gallant Avenue. Gig Harbor's marina is larger and busier, so a tighter frame on one dock avoids showing the difference in scale. Try searching harbor marina shops now.
Steveston's boardwalk and net sheds give it an older fishing village texture that can stand in for an earlier period than the general store here documents. The water there is a broad river mouth rather than a narrow inlet. Steveston has almost no forest in frame, so any shot that includes the hillside behind the shops gives away the substitution. Try searching fishing village boardwalk now.
