Downtown Seattle by Boat

Laura Domela — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:34:22 +0000

I had WAY too many photos of our arrival into downtown. It's just so dang cool when the entire front windows are filled with big buildings…such a different scene than what we've been used to.

See, I culled it down to only three photos of our approach. Here's the third one:

The Bell Harbor marina is very small and has room for about 70 boats total. There we are, toward the middle of this shot, to the left of the piling:

We arrived around 4:30pm, washed the boat off with fresh water, squeegeed the windows, and then decided to walk the waterfront because, as I mentioned before, the weather in Seattle yesterday was off the hook beautiful!

We decided to take a ride on the Seattle Great Wheel (ferris wheel on the waterfront) because…weather, and almost sunset. It was a blast, and did not disappoint in the way of view.

Up….

Up…

Down…

There's our little Airship somewhere over there in the marina on the left:

Sunset was fantastic:

After our ferris wheel ride, we wandered into Miner's Landing (restaurants, shops, taxidermy, and old photos):

Back outside:

Great Wheel, reflected in puddle:

Back at the marina (a pretty sweet location!):

There we are, right in the middle:

Here's what it's like (from the back of the boat) today, for comparison:

Still lovely, just different. Most of the day today will be spent standing here working, but it was SO worth taking yesterday afternoon off!

Nice Ride on the Springwater Corridor Trail

Laura Domela — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 20:05:55 +0000

We headed out for a bike ride this morning (while it was still cool out…76 degrees at 10am). We started down at the Portland waterfront where the Waterfront Blues Festival was getting underway. (That's it over in the park, behind all the boats parked out front.)

We rode up the Springwater Corridor, stopped at Cartlandia for a lobster sandwich, then rode further up the trail a bit before turning around and heading back to the waterfront, where the Blues Fest was in full swing:

We rode about 35 miles today. Hot (84 by the time we returned) but the nice thing about bicycling is that you make your own breeze.

Tomorrow early we'll head up to Port Townsend for a few days at Point Hudson Marina!

waterfront – Riveted

Downtown Seattle by Boat

Nice Ride on the Springwater Corridor Trail