What is the difference between a sound and a bay?
I lived many years on the Bay of Banderas, Puerto Vallarta, I understood what that body of water is, but a sound, not so sure, so I looked it up… …this is what I found out: In geography a sound is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, (a bight??) wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land . There is little consistency in the use of ‘sound’ in English-language cartography. In the United States, Long Island Sound separates Long Island from the coast of Connecticut, but on the Atlantic Ocean side of Long Island, the body of water between the ocean and its barrier beaches is termed the Great South Bay. Pamlico Sound is a similar lagoon that lies between North Carolina and its barrier beaches, the Outer Banks, in a similar situation. The Mississippi Sound separates the Gulf of Mexico from the mainland along much of the gulf coasts of Mississippi and Alabama. On the West Coast, Puget Sound, by contrast, is a de
