Jack Block Public Shoreline Access and Park
One foggy Saturday morning in October 2003, I went out in search of opportunity to capture some interesting images. Aside from the dewey web image (in the Seattle section), I came across this park in the neighborhood that I didn't even know existed for nearly three years. Here are most of the pictures from that morning. ... the better ones, hopefully.
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The plaque of dedication for the park. The link is a mundane closeup so you can read it, not a 3D image. |
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The entrance to the park, seen from just inside. Looks to me like the arch is a stylized keel and ribs of a boat overturned.
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Looking SE along the train tracks just inside the park entrance. The West Seattle Bridge is visible way in the distance.
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Inside the park. The path to the far end of the park goes up the stairs.
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Beach balls? No - they're old-style steel buoys, and are now art in the playgound.
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The playground, where you can amuse yourself with bollards and logs and ropes.
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Panning left from the playground and looking back at the entrance is the TeleTubby-like hill that the stairs go up. The houses also appear in this aerial view from the Seattle section.
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Having gone up the stairs, looking NW and down on the playground. Duwamish Head is off in the distance.
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The path follows along the shore, and this is the view from the little hill top, facing east. The ships are docked at Harbor island.
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Taken from further along the way, and facing NE. The bridge to the left of the tall lamp is just an elevated overlook at the path's terminus.
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An interpretive sign along the way, describing sea life in Elliot Bay. Someone also had dog owners in mind: the green box on the next pole is a poop repository.
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A Boeing Stratoliner ditched into the water right near Salty's restaurant, centered in this image. A picture of the plane is in the Seattle section.
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Looking up the hill at the east end of the park. At the right edge is one of the legs of that huge lamp.
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This is the view to the SE from the foot bridge. This is terminal 5, on the left bank (West Seatle) of the Duwamish Waterway. The West Seattle Bridge is in the distance.
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Looking south from the bridge, this is a wide-angle shot.
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Same view as the previous image, but zoomed in. The distant building is Nucor Steel, its red roof also seen at the top of this aerial view from the Seattle section.
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Another view of the industrial Terminal 5. The trees are on Beacon Hill, east of Interstate 5.
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Facing east, looking at a ship docked at Todd Shipyard, on the west side of Harbor Island across the Duwamish Waterway.
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Looking a bit more north, you can see the distant cranes on the downtown side of Harbor island, and some of downtown is emerging from teh fog at left.
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A ramp back in the park. I don't know of any scheduled services, although this might be where the summer water taxi takes of from. ??
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