Aug.30 Seattle WATERWAYS Adventure!

Jeanette's and Matt's church friend, Ken, offered to give us a tour on the water.
We met him downtown, South Lake Union, just off of Westlake Ave.  Not far,
were the Argosy Cruises boats and the Kenmore Air seaplane base.
We got underway and headed up to the Fremont Bridge.  Cameron wanted to go underneath.
On the way Ken pointed out the floating home as seen in "Sleepless in Seattle".
We entered the Fremont Cut and were met by an Alaskan trawler, the Northern Hawk out of
Chevak, Alaska.   341-feet long, 52-feet wide, with a tugboat in front and one behind.
We squeezed by under the bridge.
We then proceeded over to Lake Washington through the famous Montlake Cut.   The
Univ. of Washington uses this narrow passageway between the lakes for crew races.
If you get a chance, read "The Boys in the Boat", an excellent true story.   We went
right by the UW boat house.      On to Lake Washington and under the Evergreen Point
Floating Bridge.    He took us by the Medina neighborhood of Bellevue where there were
many beautiful lake front homes .. Bill Gates (Microsoft), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), etc.
One home has a full-size T-Rex dinosaur bone display in their atrium that is lit up and
is visible on evening cruises.   
Here we are coming back.   You can see Husky Stadium just over Maggie's head.
We got to see several seaplanes taking off and landing on Lake Union.
There was a large class of paddleboards we had to dodge.    Kayaks and sailboats
and small tour boats were out enjoying a light breezy morning.  What a fun boat ride!

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