All about the West Seattle neighborhood around Beach Drive
During a jog up Jacobson hill this morning, I ran into a city crew trying to decide what to do about the leaning alder they had just cut down. It just so happens that the hollowed out Alder laying on the ground is home of a swarming bees nest.
One of the crew informed me that a local bee keeper has been contacted for their expertise and over-heard other options to move the infested log to an unpopulated corner of MeeKwaMooks or Lincoln Park. You've been warned!
The University of Washington research vessel named the Thomas G Thompson has been a spotted as a regular these days off off Blake Island.
I'm guessing that they are testing the local waters beyond the out-going currents of Rich Passage where several Atlantic Salmon farming pens are located. Their website isn't revealing what they've been up to recently but a potential break out of Salmon Anemia in Puget Sound must have their attention. Monday was so beautiful out that I ventured over in the Beach Drive Blog zodiac to check out the operations. Enjoy!
Scupper, reporting for Beach Drive Blog
I'm just learning of a meeting that's taking place RIGHT NOW at the West Seattle Eagles (6:00 – 8:00 pm TOMORROW NIGHT) on California about Metro's proposed plan to eliminate route 37.
This would leave us busless on Beach Drive as this is our only bus route.
Another meeting is scheduled for November 9 at Chief Sealth School.
THANK YOU to the neighbors who emailed me tonight with this information!!
More information at West Seattle Blog.
EDITORS NOTE: it's been a long day! Thanks for the heads up so I could correct my post!!
Anyone lend these guys a big can of Raid?
I don't think it's enough to warrant a full on "barking dog report" but we do have some strong winds in the forecast with a high tide this afternoon of 11.05 at 2:05 pm.
The National Weather Service reports: South southwest wind between 15 and 18 mph becoming calm. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
City of Seattle forecast: .SHOWERS LIKELY. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S TO LOWER 60S. IN THE SOUTH PART BREEZY AT TIMES WITH SOUTH WIND 15 TO 25 MPH
…SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING…
TODAY…SW WIND 15 TO 25 KT. WIND WAVES 2 TO 4 FT. RAIN.
TONIGHT…SW WIND 15 TO 25 KT…STRONGEST S SOUND…BECOMING VARIABLE 10 KT BY MIDNIGHT. WIND WAVES 2 TO 4 FT…SUBSIDING TO 1 FT. SHOWERS LIKELY.
We spied this bone-chilling house on the 4800 block of Beach Drive the other day. 
With Halloween just a few days away, it would be spooktacular to share photos of your haunted Beach Drive homes, ghoulish carved pumpkins and spooky pets dressed in costumes on the blog. Email us your photos before Halloween!
How many movies can you count where an "incurable disease" threatens the worlds population? No worries if you can't think of any off-hand… they're still making them!
Unfortunately, this old plot is a bit too close to home for our local Puget Sound salmon runs. Recent news has reported a sample of wild Sockeye in British Columbia have contracted a European strain of Salmon Anemia. Which of course, is non-curable.This fish flu has historically only affected (devastated) the Atlantic Salmon farms in Norway, Scotland, Chile, and Eastern Canada but has never shown up on the Pacific side of the world… until now.
Like me, you may be asking what Atlantic Salmon are doing in the Pacific mixing with our own superior wild salmon species? Well, our northerly neighbors in British Columbia have been farming the Atlantic species for years now, buying the eggs from Norway (just like Chile did). Then it dawned on me that we have some aquatic salmon pens about 5 miles west of Beach Drive just inside the southern tip of Bainbridge Island inside Rich Passage.
I've motored over to the pens a few times each summer showing guests salmon splashing around and the seals begging a few get loose. A little research revealed: "Oly Yump'n yalmon!" those are Atlantic Salmon being farmed by American Gold Seafood for buyers such as Whole Foods who sells the fish outside our local market area (it's a "socially sensitive subject" in these parts). American Gold Seafood owns and operates over 120 salmon pens in Washington waters with this villian fish yet claim superior farming methods as compared to other competing sites. They have not detected the virus.
We've recently noticed the UW research vessel Thomas G Thompson snooping around between Beach Drive and Blake Island wondering if they're probing some of our friendly salmon or herring in their floating laboratory (place dramatic sci-fi music here).
Scupper, reporting for Beach Drive Blog
Starting to see the "net set" working the waters off of Beach Drive. A local resident we'll refer to as Mr. Green Horn hitched a ride Wednesday as a go-fer-boy and mentioned none of the boats are having great catches yet, "the Chums still don't seem to be all that plentiful right now".
Scupper, roporting for Beach Drive Blog
After two days of looking out our windows and watching the events unfold of salvaging Justin, the WWII vessel that was being used to assist with building a new bulkhead off of Beach Drive, it seemed refreshingly calm to only have this scene this morning.
We did wake up to flyovers from the Coast Guard to survey the area.
It didn't take too long for crews to show up to start salvaging items from the floor of Puget Sound.
It also appears that some patch repairs are being done to the vessel above (which had water pumped from it from damage this weekend). Note the diver on the smaller boat.
It looks like this anchor pole is being removed, possibly for repairs.
Update 9:40 am October 17, 11: More photos from Scupper showing the main barge that Justin was tied to showing the patch repair.
If you'd like to see all the photos that Scupper and I captured of this event, you're welcome to check them out on our Flickr page by clicking here.
Update 9:30 am, October 16, 2011: We've added a couple more of our favorite photos. We'll be posting a collection of our "Justin" photos from the past few days soon.
Scupper shivered his timbers capturing some great photos of the salvaging of the once sunk vessel off Beach Drive, Justin.
Because it's late and we typically don't blog as late as West Seattle Blog, we're going to share a few photos tonight and we'll update this tomorrow morning with more. Scupper took over 100 shots after nightfall alone and we want to select and share what we think are the best.
Here's a preview.
Justin is enroute to Tacoma per employees of Waterfront Construction.
Good news, Scupper found the owner of the hard hat that he found floating in the Sound. Hat and head will be reunited soon.
Watch for this post to be updated tomorrow!
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