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Seattle, Washington
All Photos © Tim N. Touchton
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“Sign in front of the Alki Point Light”
Alki Point Light, There has been a light showing safe anchorage off the
point ever
since the Denny party first founded Seattle.
This light house, one of 13 in the Puget Sound area, was built and run by
the U.S.
Light House Service in 1913 as an aid to navigation.
The service was taken over by Coast Guard in 1939, but it wasn’t until
1970 that one of
the last two civilian lighthouse keepers retired here at Alki Point.
I took these photographs on June 25, 2000 while visiting the Seattle area
with my 14 year
old son. We were traveling the west coast at the time visiting lighthouses
(14 in all) and
watching my older two sons band, xbxrx, play while
they were on tour.
We got to Alki Point in the mid-afternoon. It took me a while to find out
how to get there.
I had directions, as I usually get off the Internet before I go on a lighthouse
adventure, but
the roads in Seattle are really laid out strangely and the signs there are
in dumb places. It
is a beautiful place, lovely homes and shops along a beach front where there
are many
people biking, skating and sun bathing. We went roller blading along the waterfront
and
had a great time. I didn't fall down once, and really enjoyed the skating.
Rich is a great
skater anyway and he even did some speed skating. The lighthouse is located
where
there is not much parking and they do not want you walking on the grass, which
is
the best place for taking pictures of the little lighthouse. It is a beautiful
structure,
tiny but impressive. It is difficult to get a photograph because of all the
people wandering
around it. There is a little gift shop on the grounds, and a museum inside
the lighthouse
building.
There is a beautiful view of the snow capped mountains from this area. I also
recommend
visiting the Seattle area around the Space Needle. You also get a beautiful
view of the
Seattle skyline while on Harbor/Alki drive. You need to stop and take it all
in. A highly
recommended trip.
Directions:
The lighthouse is located just past the southern part
of the public beach area. Take I-5
south from Seattle. Take the W. Seattle Freeway exit (close to the brewery).
Take Spokane
Street west to Harbor Drive and take a right on Harbor. Follow this road along
the waterfront
which turns into Alki Drive and then to Beach Drive. If you are on the road
along the waterfront
and can see the Seattle skyline off to the right across the water (which is
a beautiful site) and
you have nice home and shops on your left, then you are heading in the right
direction.
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