We shuttle back and forth along the perimeter of Seattle Harbor on nightly visits to my mother-in-law’s.
The route from downtown to West Seattle offers beautiful urban scenery, with views of Seattle’s skyline, its thriving port, and sometimes the mountains that ring Puget Sound. One sees a little of everything: ferris wheels, cruise ships, space needles (only one of those), vast shipping yards, stacks of freight containers, huge cranes, lumbering freight vessels, sports amphitheaters, crazy waterfront dwellings, festive piers.
I’m usually on the wrong side of the cab to take any pictures, but, one time, when circumstances were right, I did take a few. They are extremely amateurish but have the merit of capturing some of the charms of the view. At night, the strange shapes of the harbor glow bright with unexpected color, shimmering in the inky water and sky.
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- Greeen boat
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- Squiggled skyline
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- A cruise ship’s lights
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- A ship against Seattle
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- Night colors of Elliott Bay
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- Enormous cranes
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harley says
I’ve been to Seattle a few times and have gone past that port. It’s busy. I always like seeing the large gatling cranes and all the containers that arrive via the mighty Pacific from somewhere in the Far East. . . . Given that the pictures were taken from a cab, they are still OK.
Celia says
The port used to be closed to cruise ships, but since that restriction was loosened a few years ago, the Bay has a more romantic quality, with many cruise ships drifting back and forth, their lights glistening at night. Many of them are Alaska-bound, others travel up and down the Pacific coast. . .