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The Octopus Bar Returns!

The pandemic has cooped us up in quarantine for over a year. With the days getting longer, we are growing itchy for a well-crafted cocktail and snack consumed on a patio! Soon, the Octopus Bar will join Murphy’s, Julia’s and Westward in offering pandemic-friendly dining for Wallyhood dwellers. Coming in March: The Octopus will offer indoor and outdoor seating via newly constructed “STREATERIES” on both Bagley and 45th!  Last year, the Octopus Bar bobbed just down the road to its new…

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Moored in Tangletown

Tangletown resident, Gina, snapped this pic of a boat moored on the traffic circle on Kenwood at Woodlawn. If you look closely, you'll see an orange "vehicle violation" sticker on the windshield. KIRO News posted a picture of the sticker up close, which you can see here. The Seattle Police officer who issued the sticker wrote "Really?" under "Remarks" on the sticker. KIRO also notes that "The Seattle Police Department gave the vessel a vacate notice, ordering it be removed by…

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Seattle Canoe and Kayak Club Open House

If you've got kids 10 and up who love being out on the water, then you'll want to check out Seattle Canoe and Kayak Club (SCKC), which meets just over yonder, at the Green Lake Small Craft Center. This Saturday, SCKC is holding an Open House, from 10:00am to 1:00pm, for kids (and parents) to come and see what the club has to offer. Here's some information from the club: Is your 5th grader/middle school student looking for a great sport that…

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Christmas Ship Finale Friday

The Argosy Christmas Ship™ festival returns to Gas Works Park for the Parade Finale on Friday, December 23rd. Not familiar with the Christmas Ships? Check it out here. The Seattle Girls’ Choir’s most accomplished performers, the group known as Prima Voci,  will sing from 9:45 – 10:05 pm.  See Argosy’s website for more information. So come on down to Gas Works Friday night, listen to the choir, enjoy the decorated boats, and warm your hands near the bonfire.  I'll be there…

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Christmas Ships

Did you hear the singers on the Christmas Ship last night on Lake Union?  We did, and we live halfway on top of the hill!  It's always a little (disconcerting?) hearing the voices at first, because we immediately think one of our kids got up out of bed and turned on the TV; and we freeze, trying to determine which of them will be busted until my husband asks, "Wait a minute, is that the Christmas Ship?" and I say, "Oh…

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Boat Livin’, Lake Union Style

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OK, so maybe you can't live in a treehouse, but you can live on a boat. Sure, you could shell out $2.5M for the houseboat Tom Hanks lived on in Sleepless in Seattle, but you've got better things to do with your money, right? Instead, for a cool $30,000, you could buy the Frieda Fey, a 40' 1944 Vic Frank Naval Launch converted to a live aboard cruiser. Docked just a stone's throw from Gas Works (literally), the Frieda Fay is…

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North Lake Community Wharf news

Off at a 40th b-day party for a friend, we finally managed to meet Jake Beattie, Deputy Director of the Center for Wooden Boats and quizzed him a bit on their efforts to open a waterfront activity center just to the west of Gas Works Park. View Larger Map There's quite a bit of background on the Friends of North Lake Community Wharf web site, but we were still scratching our heads a bit trying to figure out exactly where they…

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