Thanks to Beach Drive neighbor, Chuck, for sending us these beautiful photos of last Saturday's sunset. See more of Chuck's photos on Flickr.
Tricker Treaters and Winston the Bat Dog
October 31, 2011 by Leave a Comment
We were visited by Winston, the cutest Bat Dog, who rallied our old Zombie pug, Orson, into having more dinner. His humans told us of a very scary house down the street, which we had photographed earlier for Halloween, but did not know about the paranormal activites.
Happy Halloween from Beach Drive Blog
October 31, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Please bees careful walking/running up Jacobson street today!
October 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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!
October 26, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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
Happening TOMORROW NIGHT: Meeting about termination of Metro’s Bus Route 37 on Beach Drive
October 25, 2011 by 3 Comments
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!!
Creeps hanging around this Beach Drive condo…
October 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Anyone lend these guys a big can of Raid?
Today’s Weather: Wet, Wind and Waves
October 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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.
Halloween on Beach Drive
October 22, 2011 by 1 Comment
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!
Salmon Sci-fi in our back yard
October 21, 2011 by 5 Comments
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
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