Last weekend was the annual Wooden Boat Festival. Angel and I rode the ferry over to Whidbey Island and back just so that we could take photos of some of the sites from an offshore perspective. The day was warm and bright, and there were many wooden boats in the harbor.
The shot to the right looks back towards Union Wharf. In the background near the right side of the photo you can see a yellow building. That is the new headquarters of the Wooden Boat Foundation. It occupies a site that formerly held some decaying remnants of something resembling a fuel depot.
This photograph looks back towards the Point Hudson Marina. You can get a better glimpse of the Wooden Boat Foundation headquarters. That's a big building. When it's open, visitors will be able to stand in upper galleries and look down on a shop floor where shipwrights are learning their trade.
Here is a beautiful boat under full sail.
At about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, the boats anchored in the harbor raise their sails and tack back and forth in front of the town. Quite a sight on such a glorious, September day. The trip over
to Whidbey and back took about an hour. Compared to some of the leviathans that ply the waters of Puget Sound nearer to Seattle, the Whidbey Island ferry is little. When the water gets rough, they have to cancel service.
Today, however, the crossing was smooth. On the way back a young folksinger/busker played his guitar and sang as he sat facing the sun. The kid had a good, strong voice. I admired his confidence and enthusiasm.
Later, we rode the bus back to the park-and-ride and picked up our car. This was the first time, the Old Amigo has actually gotten a senior citizen discount - an all day city transit pass for a dollar. What a bargain!
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