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A close up of foamy water at the base of the Ballard Locks spillway. I asked about these colors at the visitor center. The docent told me it was from residual pollen, from the hundreds of surrounding trees.
Sea Scouts tying up at the Ballard Locks. Heading in from Puget Sound, the locks have to raise the boats to the higher level of Lake Washington.
I believe this is the Argo, a 40' Mark 4 US Coast Guard personnel boat.
Olympus E-P5
Panasonic 12-32mm
Pictures from my last ride of 2014 around Seattle on a clear, cold New Years Eve. The ride included a picnic lunch on the Seattle Waterfront and coffee made out of doors above the Ballard Locks. A few words about this ride can be read over on the old blog.
Members of the public got another chance to take in the unique viewing opportunity as Pontoon W rose up and passed through the locks. Visitors looked on and took photographs during the approx. 45 minute float-in.
Seattle, Washington
The Hiram Chittenden Locks will be 100 years old in 2017, one of Seattle's top tourist destinations and a local favorite.
The "Ballard Locks", as they are known locally, connect fresh and salt waters, holding back the flood of an enormous water basin (Lake Union, Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish).
The fish ladder at the locks provides access for large runs of salmon returning to their native streams along with a front-row seat for the people of Seattle and visitors to watch them and the sea lions who prey on them.
The drawbridges around Ballard are reputed as some of the world's busiest because of boat traffic (commercial and leisure) transiting between the fresh and salt waters connected by the Ballard Locks. The average time for a drawbridge to open and close is about 4 minutes and quite a sight. The drawbridges do not open between 7-9 AM or between 4-6 PM on weekdays.
The bridges are opened and closed by the bridge tender who communicates with vessels from a high perch with a prime view.
Finally found a colony in our state. Purple Martins aren't everywhere in WA State like they are in the midwest and eastern U.S. but slowly they're becoming more nad more common. There are several colonies in Seattle, one in Everett, and a colony or two in lower puget sound regions like Olympia and Tacoma area.
The young in this colony are probably 3 weeks or so from fledging. The martins are some of the last arriving martins int he North America. A few make it up to BC, Canada area.
This is Shilshole Bay next to the Ballard Elks Club lodge in Seattle, WA.
"Salmon Waves" (artist Paul Sorey, 2001) consists of seven stainless steel wave-like sculptures, with light emitting diodes that create the illusion of juvenile salmon in motion. The sculpture’s machined form alludes to waves and salmon, references the precision of the Locks, and visually marks the complex system that is designed to ensure the safe passage of juvenile salmon through the Locks and into Seattle’s urban waterways. The sculptures are now a key component for the 1.5 million visitors who come to the Ballard Locks each year.
Tug CHEHALIS in the Lake Washington Ship Canal Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, Seattle, Washington, ca. 1917
Photographer:
Price, A.E.
Subjects (LCSH):
Chehalis (Tugboat)
Hiram M. Chittenden Locks (Seattle, Wash.)
Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle, Wash.)
Ballard (Seattle, Wash.)
Digital Collection:
Seattle Photograph Collection
content.lib.washington.edu/seattleweb/index.html
Item Number: SEA1971
Persistent URL:
content.lib.washington.edu/u?/seattle,1830
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Hôm nay mẹ định dẫn Hà Vy đi xem cái concert, mà đến muộn quá concert hết cả rồi. Thế là mình đi dạo rồi ngồi chơi thôi. Hà Vy chọn chỗ ngồi tít trên đồi cao nhưng phải nhìn được nước. Khoái chí lắm, chỉ chực trượt từ trên đồi xuống thôi.
Mommy and Alya planned on going to Ballard Locks for a concert today, but it was over by the time we got there. No problem, we walked around the garden and ended up having a fun picnic together. Alya picked the picnic spot. Her criteria: higher up and view of water!!! She loved to scare Mommy by sliding down the hill.
Item 158480, SDOT Transportation Projects Digital Photographs (Record Series 8100-01), Seattle Municipal Archives.
There were a few fish in the viewing section of the ladder, and this little guy was one of them. He was swimming like gangbusters :)
My friend Brian lent me his Sigma 10-20mm lens to shoot this with, thanks man!
"Salmon Waves," artist Paul Sorey, 2001, is located at the Hiram M. Chittenden Memorial Locks
Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, Lake Washington Ship Canal aerial view, Seattle, Washington, n.d.
Photographer:
Marlow
Subjects (LCSH):
Booms (Log transportation)--Washington (State)--Seattle
Ballard (Seattle, Wash.)
Digital Collection:
Seattle Photograph Collection
content.lib.washington.edu/seattleweb/index.html
Item Number: SEA1057
Persistent URL:
content.lib.washington.edu/u?/seattle,589
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Windows in the Ballard Locks fish ladder allow viewing of the fish as they travel through. I found it difficult to get a decent shot of the fish. The lighting was terrible and the area was extremely crowded with people jostling to get a view. Plus the surface of the glass was pitted and scratched. And on top of all those challenges the fish did not want to pose!
Two Osprey fledglings (Pandion haliaetus) dine under watchful mum at Seattle nesting platform. Papa brought the fish then took his portion to another perch. On this go 'round, mum left all of the food for the fledglings. I'm not sure if she ate before I arrived. Both youngsters are flying, still working on their aerial skills and their landing techniques.
This cute little fish and chips cafe is just outside the Ballard Locks. We stopped there after our afternoon jaunt and ate some super yummy ice cream (blackberry for my mom, strawberry for me and toasted coconut for my dad),
The last week before the start of kindergarten, we fit in a couple last outings. Evan and I went to the Ballard Locks one morning, then met Steve in Ballard for lunch and ice cream. I've taken several pictures of boats going through the locks before, so I tried to take some pictures of the wave sculptures this time.