Lake Washington Eric and Sylvia go canoeing on Lake Washington and also go to Greenlake Park. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| We went canoeing Saturday close to the University of Washington. Lucky for us, we had our own canoe, and didn't have to wait in line to rent a canoe. Evidently, from the announcements on the PA system, there were more than a hundred people waiting. | There's lots of bird life around there--it's kind of a wetland area. Heron... | |||||||||||||||||||
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| ...LOTS of Canadian geese (a big pest around here) | ...and I think this was a young bald eagle. Eric, however, thought it wasn't. Who was right? I was. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Here's another heron, this time with Mt. Rainier in the background. | There's some really beautiful waterfront houses around this area, called the Laurelhurst area. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| We fed some ducks at the Arboretum. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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  ...and then went to Greenlake, thinking of renting some rollerbladed. Ended up not doing that, just walking around. For some reason, Eric's beard had a session of really heavy growth right around then. See below. |  More canadian geese...otherwise known as rats with wings. | | ||||||||||||||||||