The Edmonds waterfront is a five-minute drive from my house, so I walk here often. Last Sunday I parked a little north of Anthony’s Beachfront Cafe, somewhere in the middle of the waterfront walk.
Anthony’s serves seafood and surrounds itself with flowers.
It also provide a sand pit for restless children.
That morning a bit of marine air sifted in, so even at high noon the temperature (69 degrees) was still cool enough for a very pleasant walk. My one complaint: Canadian wildfires. They’ve stolen our blue skies. Who knows when they’ll be brought under control. Rain would help, but here in Washington State, we haven’t had any rain for more than fifty days. I suppose it’s the same in British Columbia.
The kayakers above don’t seem to mind. As long as they have a few crabs in their traps, they’re happy.
A beach design
Low tide expands the dog park far beyond its boring fenced-in area.
Summer “Sea Jazz”. I sat down for a few minutes to listen to these excellent young musicians. What a delight to hear old jazz favorites brought back to life! (Edmonds Woodway High School has an award-winning jazz program.)
Heading back north, I started paying attention to the names on boats. The owners of this sailboat must be looking forward to some good cheer on the water. Clink.
Pity! The swordsman and poet has such a big nose. Is this boat owner a poet? Does he have a big nose? Does he pine for Roxane?
A small boat with big ideas of escape.
There’s something about sailing away that evokes feelings of freedom and rule breaking.
Moonbeams and a constellation.
Sanitarium: “an establishment for the medical treatment of people who are convalescing or have a chronic illness.”
What better way to recover one’s health than to sail away on your own sailboat.
What would you name a boat if you had one? Or maybe you do have a boat.
The Port of Edmonds provides planters all along the waterfront walk. These yellow flowers are quite big, but they remind me of the little buttercups that grow in the grass.
A crab trap on the fishing dock. All except one of these crabs were keepers.
Washington State ferry seen from the fishing dock.
That concludes my walk for today.
Loved your walk, could smell the sea-weed on the rocks and the salty smell of the sea… not to mention the flowers ….
Thanks, Valerie. I live a mile or two from the water, and when the tide is low and the breeze is right, I can smell the seaweed from my house. I also love hearing the foghorn on a foggy morning.
Sorry I missed this beautiful post, Nicki. WP is getting on my last nerve.
Ha ha. That’s a saying I haven’t heard before–your “last nerve”. I don’t even try to understand what WP does. It’s all a mystery to me.
Beautiful sights and beautiful boats! What a lovely blog! I am so happy to be introduced to it!
Hi Luanne. I’m glad you came by to take a look. Too bad the sky wasn’t the beautiful bright blue it is today when I took those pics.
That looked like such a lovely day!
A lovely walk. It is amazing what we can find when we take time to look. Too often we are rushing through life instead of enjoying the journey.
The small things bring so much pleasure in life. I was interested in art from an early age. One benefit of drawing and painting is that you learn to pay attention to the details of the world around you.
Enjoyed your walk, Nicki. If I had a boat, I’m not certain what I would call it. Maybe Synchronicity or Serendipity or Rising Tides.
Hope you and your neighbors to the north get some rain soon . . . to clear the air and douse the fires.
Pat Taffera also likes Serendipity. Rising Tides is good.
We did have some rain, more like sprinkles. The sky is blue now, but I doubt it was enough to help very much with the wild fires.
What a nice walk! I also have a “waterfront” nearby but there are not so many things. Also, it’s a lake and not that big, you can see the other side. I miss the sea! I used to spend my summers in the beach!
I’m really lucky to live near this walk. There’s a park on each end of it. Round trip is about 2 1/2 miles. I didn’t go all the way to the second park on Sunday. I took too long taking pictures, and I was hungry for lunch.
How I enjoyed Edmonds waterfront thru your walk! I have been unable since badly injuring a knee June 11!
Funny that I have often enjoyed reading the names of boats and always thought I would call my boat Serendipity if I had one!
Serendipity is a great name! My maiden name is Cromarty, so when my dad built a boat, he named it Crow Marty. Actually it was a picture of a crow sitting on “Marty”. It didn’t quite fit because Cromarty is pronounced with a short “o”, but we thought it was clever.
I’m so sorry about your knee. I hope it won’t take too long to heal.
If I had a boat, it would be called Escaped L.A. 🙂
Good one!
How wonderful to live so close to the sea. If I had a boat, I might call it ‘The Wanderer’ because that’s what I would want to do – wander from small cove to cove discovering things.
When I was in about the eighth grade, my dad built a twenty-foot cabin cruiser. Wandering was one of the things I loved about being out in it. We wandered around the San Juan Islands, stopping sometimes at small deserted beaches, imagining that no one had been there before us.
What a lovely place to walk, Nicki! Thank you for posting your photos. Love the flowers. How awful about the Canadian wildfires. 🙁
I love the names on the boats. Nicely done on the Cheers TV show logo!
Today, for the first time in fifty-six days, we’re getting a little rain. It’s just sprinkles, but we hope it will wash away some of that smoke.
Oh! I thought about the TV show, but I didn’t notice that print mimicked the logo. Now all we need is the song. That’s an unforgettable one. Whoever wrote it is a genius.
For me boats are like vacation homes. I’d love to have a friend with one rather than own it. However, if I did, I might consider “Money Pit.” 🙂
I agree. Vacations homes, swimming pools, and boats. Walking along the waterfront, I see men (always men) scrubbing and washing their boats, and I think they must enjoy it. They’re like the guys who wash and polish their cars so frequently and with such care. They must enjoy it. Otherwise they’d just drive through the car wash.
Am I surprised that you would choose a humorous name for your boat? Not at all.
It looked like a delightful walk along the water. Definite a lot of boats from the looks of it. I really like the name bandit. It sounds very adventurous, very rough and tumble and ready to tackle anything that comes its way. Don’t know what I’ll name my boat if I had one. Never actually dreamt of owning a boat or sailing on a boat. I don’t get sea sick of the few times I’ve been on a boat, but I’ve never felt a connection or affinity with water, being every bit the land person that I am. That said, I do like watching a good sailboat race 🙂
I think it’s interesting that you and many boat owners chose names like bandit. It’s a sign, not that you’d like to go out and rob a bank, but that when you’re out on a boat, surrounding by nothing but water, you’d like to feel adventurous, detached from all the rules and regulations and schedules that keep you in check on dry land.
I do feel an affinity for water. I like the way it gives when you dive into it, the way it holds you up. I like seeing it from the shore, that great expanse of blue, like a cloudless sky. And I like cutting through it on a boat, making a wake, driving on a lane-less road. Best of all is when dolphins swim alongside.