Beautiful Morning Walk

Today I went for a beautiful morning walk. More pictures to come, but it was a nice morning for a walk, its supposed to be the first 60 degree day here in April.  Took a while, but when it comes, it always seems worth it.  The only complaint is that after a few sunny (but cool) days the mountains don't look as good, because it gets a little hazy.  But, I will take the nice days.  :)

This was all the wider my camera would get.  But I love how still it is.

Edmonds Clinton Ferry Pictures

For three weekends the Mukilteo Ferry Dock has been getting some upgrades or work done on it. So the Clinton Ferry has been coming down to the already busy Edmonds Dock.  Makes for some great pictures if one likes Ferries.

Dusk Photos

Last weekend Deb and I went down to Edmond's Waterfront to watch the sunset. It wasn't as good as we thought it would be, but we got some other good pictures.

Boats

Saturday I went down to the beach to take some pictures, it was a nice day and there were lots of boats out.  To put it mildly, I really like boats.  So here are the best of the photos I took.  A couple of tug boats and a couple of ferry shots. 

Ferry Favorite

Just saw on Flickr that the Washington State Department of Transportation likes my Ferry picture.  Pretty cool.

I will be posting more stuff, in the coming days. School is wrapping up and most of the tough time consuming work is done for the quarter.

Paulsbo Boat Trip

Awesome day today.  God is good, 80 or so degrees, nice water for a boat trip.  We started from Whidbey Island and headed south, we cut in behind Bainbridge Island at Agate pass and then wound our way down to Blake Island (which is just north of Vashon Island).  While we were winding our way through the nice calm water, I heard a loud V8 rumble, I slowed down and looked behind us, there were 4 ocean racers closing fast (I first heard them about a mile away over the sound of our own V8).  I'm not sure how fast this first group was going, but they were flying, just the propellers were in the water.  A minute or so later this guy (pic1) and one other boat started closing in on us, so I gunned our boat (which does 52mph) and the race was on...well, we got smoked pretty bad, they were doing 70 or so, just went cruising right by us.  A few minutes later we rounded the corner and were greeted with this great view of Mt. Rainier(pic2).  We then cruised around Blake Island and were going to stop at the marina there, but they didn't have room for us.  So we decided to go up to Paulsbo. It has been quite a few years since I have been to Paulsbo, and I have to say I was quite impressed, they at least have very good taste in cars (pic3).  We had some pizza at a wood fired pizza place on what appeared to be the main drag through town.  It was quite good I an would recommend it to others visiting Paulsbo.  Which itself, was quite a cool town, I really liked all the Scandinavian stuff and feel to the town.  Pretty much an awesome day.  We even got to see a few porpoises, but no pictures as they were off before we could really get set to take pictures.  Speaking of which, it is really hard to take a picture in a rocking boat.  Trying to compose the shot is nearly impossible.