When the Ferry Arrives in Friday Harbor

Whoops - forgot that I revised and re-uploaded this video, so the original that I had linked here was unavailable. But it's working now...
This was a fun project to put together. Lots and lots of still frames, all shot at 1 second intervals, then brought all together into a fast paced time lapse video. It's best viewed full screen at full 1080p quality. (and some decent speakers or headphones won't hurt either).

LaConner

Busy day running around the mainland takin' care of business. It poured down rain driving between Mt. Vernon and LaConner (wipers on full speed - don't do that too often). Then after my appointment in LaConner, the rain quit and the sky was looking beautiful with the pre-sunset light highlighting the clouds to the west. To get a better view of that, I headed over to the channel and that's where I found this wire sculpture on a gangplank. You can just make out the famous orange LaConner arch bridge through the left side of it. And if you look really closely along the shoreline you can see a Great Blue Heron.

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The Old Seaplane Dock

This little short "dock to nowhere" there in the center of the image, used to be many years ago the seaplane float if I remember right. Now it's just an old pier without a float, and it's boarded up so you can't walk out on it even. Too bad, it would be a nice place to shoot a photo like this. But I guess this location will do in a pinch.

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Fisherman Bay

Here's a view of the dock in Fisherman Bay on Lopez at The Islander where we went for dinner last night. This is were we parked the skiff before walking up the dock for a great meal.

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West Side Sun

We went out to Whale Watch Park today with our friends from Switzerland, and WE SAW WHALES! So we felt very good that the whales were there for our friends. Seems like most of the time when we go out there, we've just missed them by 1/2 hour, or we find out later they came by a 1/2 hour after we left. So today was good. This photo was shot after they were gone and we had just finished our picnic lunch. Very warm afternoon with the sun beating down. Good times.

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Gazebo at Roche Harbor

Roche Harbor Resort's restaurant and bar with the gazebo. This is where my band is playing Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week. And along with 2 nights at Herb's last weekend, the Rumor Mill next weekend and the Pig War Picnic on the Fourth, we've had a busy schedule (contributing to my lack of daily photos - I'm hoping to play catch-up soon) and rockin' good times!

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Rainy Windshield

I went down to the waterfront after dinner hoping to shoot some of the mists I saw in the trees out the back window - I really thought it was foggy out, but when I got down there it was starting to rain. And, no fog. So I shot some humdrum photos out the driver's window and the passenger window, and then I shot this one of the droplets on the windshield. It looked better than the others (especially if you click on it) so after some P/S, here it is.

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The Landing

Here's another shot from last night's little excursion down to the waterfront. This time, looking away from that sunset toward Spring Street Landing.

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Port Sunset

I looked outside just before sunset and said, "Honey, let's run down to the port and shoot a photo!" Well, you know me - about 134 frames later, I came up with something. Luckily, she got a chocolate ice cream and rather than being bored and impatient with me, she said "No worries - I'm golden".

I'm pretty sure that's why photographers call it Golden Hour.

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Elwha Arrives

This is the ferry Elwha coming into Friday Harbor.

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Little League on the Hudson

Today we decided to check out the west side of Manhattan after a quick jaunt on the Roosevelt Island Tram (on the east side), (which we got on by just swiping our MTA cards). (Gotta love those things). Anyway, after that a quick bus ride to the west side and a great lunch at the Boat Basin Cafe, followed by a stroll along Riverside Park only to find out the bike rental place was closed. But what a great park! Kids playing little league in the shadow of an old abandoned elevated freeway, and lots of cool stuff to look at on the waterfront too.

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East Waterway

That's the bridge we walked across yesterday and tonight we went down to get a night shot of it and lower Manhattan. And again, too many shots to pick just one, so here's a couple more. The night shots are from Brooklyn Bridge Park and the cute little fuzzy things were shot in Central Park.

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The Place

The Friday Harbor waterfront as viewed from the ferry dock. 

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Foot Passengers Only

What's wrong with this picture? A ferry full of cars at the passenger only dock, that's what. A lot of unfortunate drivers were turned around and taken elsewhere because the transfer span on the main dock (that's the ramp you drive on) was out of commission. They finally got it fixed late this afternoon.

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Quaint Little Seaside Village

Here's Friday Harbor and the port docks as viewed from across the bay. Like yesterday's photo, this was shot from the U of W Labs property.

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Craggly Tree

I don't know if "craggly" is a word or not. I'm guessing not. But whatever - it looks craggly to me. This was shot from the UofW Labs property. That's Brown Island on the right. Turn Island in the center background.

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Friday Harbor Port Docks

Sunset at the port docks (Port of Friday Harbor). One of my favorite places in all the world.

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Washington State Ferry at Dusk

Another beautiful day in paradise. It started out sunny and gorgeous, then got greyer and greyer (is that a word?), and then it POURED down rain this afternoon. But by evening it was beautiful again and we just happened along the waterfront when the ferry was coming in.

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