{"id":484,"date":"2014-07-04T15:26:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T22:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/creatures\/?p=484"},"modified":"2026-01-06T21:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:05:11","slug":"we-become-anadromous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"We become anadromous"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Five years ago when we bought our kayaks<\/a>\u00a0we needed a place to keep them while we were getting ready to move to Mexico. \u00a0 Seattle of course offered a number of options, but some were either distant or inaccessible. \u00a0We could see the Bell Street Marina from our window, for instance, an easy walk up the waterfront; but getting the boats there, and then in and out of the water, would have been difficult. \u00a0Other spots that allowed storage did not always provide easy launching.<\/p>\n

But after the end of the summer season, temporary spaces opened up at the Moss Bay Rowing Club<\/a>, which is located, not on Moss Bay in Kirkland as one might expect, but at the south end of Lake Union. Though we got our Eddyline Fathom at Alki Kayak Tours in West Seattle, it was at Moss Bay that it was baptized, joining the Delta 16 that we had ordered first. We only needed the slips until the end of October, when we left for Loreto, expecting that the boats would spend the rest of their days on the Sea of Cort\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

It turns out though that we are back in Seattle, and the Fathom has come with us, returning to its fresh water origins just like a salmon would, or steelhead. \u00a0It has waited long enough to secure a permanent, year-round berth within a few feet of the water. \u00a0It’s an easy walk from our digs, or one can make part of the journey on the famous South Lake Union Trolley.<\/p>\n

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Who can live in Seattle and not consider buying a houseboat?<\/p><\/div>\n

There’s plenty of paddling to do locally, admiring the ingenuity of house-boat dwellers, dodging seaplanes and racers, stopping in to eat at shoreside caf\u00e9s — and all of Lake Washington can be reached without any barrier. \u00a0 And, temptingly, Puget Sound, the Salish Sea, and ultimately the Pacific Ocean are just beyond locks or portage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five years ago when we bought our kayaks\u00a0we needed a place to keep them while we were getting ready to move to Mexico. \u00a0 Seattle of course offered a number of options, but some were either distant or inaccessible. \u00a0We … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}