Seattle skyline (panorama taken from Kite Hill in Gas Works Park)
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Seattle skyline (panorama taken from Kite Hill in Gas Works Park) |
Since we will not travel to Hawaii until 2020 but we still wanted to see our youngest, we flews to Seattle on Saturday, April 13, and met Eric who had arrived from Honolulu a couple of hours or so earlier. We used the afternoon and evening to explore the city; in particular we spent some time at the Pike Place Market (where, among other things, we saw the first ever Starbucks) and the Spheres at Amazon headquarters.
We continued our sightseeing on Monday (more about Sunday's activities below). The weather was glorious: sunshine and blue skies interspersed with white clouds; from the comments of the locals, we gathered that this was rather unusual. We explored Space Needle Park and the Ballard locks before meeting Eric's friends Travis and Beth for brunch. We then paid the Fremont Troll a visit and walked from there to Gas Works Park. Eric spent the evening with his friends while we went to see the beautiful (inside and out!) Seattle library and made it an early night after an excellent Thai dinner in a tiny, unassuming place not too far from our hotel.
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Pike Place Market |
Inside the market |
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Fish for sale |
Along Pike Place |
The Westin Seattle |
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Looking down Pike Street |
Denny Park |
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The Spheres at Amazon Headquarters |
Inside one of the spheres |
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The view from 7th Avenue |
The Seattle Space Needle |
A different view |
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Dan Corso's Sonic Bloom in Space Needle Park |
Alexander Liberman's Olympic Iliad in Space Needle Park |
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Looking from the Lockhaven dam to the railway bridge |
The Ballard Locks |
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View from Commodore Park to the Ballard locks |
The Fremont Troll beneath the Aurora Bridge (the VW bug is real!) |
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View under the Aurora Bridge |
In Gas Works Park |
A closer look |
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In Gas Works Park |
Gas Works Park view |
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House boats seen from Gas Works Park across Lake Union |
Seattle skyline seen from N. Northlake Way |
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The Seattle Public Library |
Inside the library |
Beth and Travis were kind enough to lend us a car, so on Sunday, the day after we arrived in Seattle, Eric drove us to Anacortes, a roughly two-hour drive. We parked the car and took a ferry (the M/V Sealth) to Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, a crossing that took just over an hour. San Juan Island was a revelation to us; before taking this trip, we hadn't even known that this place existed. And what a visual treat it was!
We first explored Friday Harbor (named after a certain Joseph Poalie Friday) before taking a cab across the island to Lime Kiln Point State Park. We spent a couple of hours there admiring the scenery and keeping an eye out for whales—sadly in vain. We then headed back to Friday Harbor, had a tasty seafood (what else?) lunch at a place called The Hungry Clam, and took the ferry back to Anacortes from where Eric drove us back to Seattle.
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Leaving Anacortes on a WSF to San Juan Island |
Just over an hour later, we arrive at Friday Harbor |
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We have arrived at our destination |
Admiring the harbor from Memorial Park |
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On Spring Street, Friday Harbor's main street |
The other side of Spring Street |
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Front Street by Memorial Park |
Looking down First Street |
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The coastline at Lime Kiln Point State Park |
At Lime Kiln Point State Park |
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Rugged terrain |
Looking towards the Lime Kiln Light |
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The Lime Kiln Light |
In Lime Kiln Point State Park |
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In Lime Kiln Point State Park |
In Lime Kiln Point State Park |
Leaving Friday Harbor |
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Briefly stopping at Lopez Island on the way back to Anacortes |
Sailing past Decatur Island |
All photos on this page were taken between April 13 and 15, 2019
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