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| What a high school!! |
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| Stadium - with a view |
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| Quite the history..... |
We toured Tacoma and visited Stadium high school. Originally envisioned as a Hotel by the railroad, it was converted into a school. With a view. Jodi had watched a show focused on the most beautiful high schools in the US and recalled that Tacoma's Stadium High School was rated as the most beautiful High School in the US. And the stadium has a view that puts most colleges to shame.
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| Jodi feeds 'Jonathon', Foss Marina's pet seagull |
From Tacoma we went south through the Narrows to Lake Bay Marina and stopped by the narrows brewery. From there we went to 'Lake Bay Marina and Resort', which sounds fancier than it really is.
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| Lots of old stuff at Lake Bay |
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| Jodi goes kayaking just off Lakebay |
The 'resort' was apparently a going concern in the 50's and 60's, but then became run down. It was a destination for kids with access to small boats to come for an ice cream before they could drive a car (I can identify with that..). One of those kids, Mark Scott, had fond memories of he and his older brother taking the speed boat from their water front home in Wollochet bay well before they could drive a car to get an ice cream cone.
A year ago Mark bought the run down place and has been putting his energies to restoring the old place as he once knew it. It has potential. A lot of potential.
The dining room is a throw back to the 50's and it's pretty cool. From his actions he appears to be all about customer service and he's making it work.
Lake Bay is right next to Penrose state park with 4 miles of trails. Jodi made me hike them all and it was quite fun.
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| Odd leaf we found on the hike |
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| Dinner? |
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| Flying the flags at Penrose State Park |
From there we headed south and headed for Boston Harbor, but like Lake Bay there were no showers and the crew was getting a little ripe. Aside from that, Boston Harbor had no room, so we continued to Olympia.
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| Capitol building in Olympia |
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| Jellyfish were everywhere |
Olympia is a funky town. It has quite a freak flag and they waive it. Tats, wild hair, etc. The non-traditional appears to be traditional. Cool restaurants, one off specialty shops specializing in special things makes Olympia, well, special. We like it.
The Olympia yacht club would lead us to believe that our walk up 4th street may not have represented Olympia as a while.
We found Fish Tale brewery, along with a cool wine shop with stunningly good food.
There was an event Wednesday morning. We noticed some police and fire activity across the small water way at Percival Landing and a little later a news copter was hovering overhead. A body had been found, not 200 feet from where we were moored. The circumstances of the fellows demise were not available on the news.
On Wednesday the Senior Krafts departed and we headed up to Hope Island, a state park about 8 miles away from Olympia. Hope Island is pretty cool. Jodi kayaked around the island and we had happy hour on the bow bar. A group of kayakers were there as was a Westail 32.
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