Joy to All Our Neighbors – 2017
Joy to all our neighbors — peace and love from the Floating Times | related post: Joy to All Our Neighbors (2016)
Category: Dock news
Floating Home Market Update
The Secret is Out With the near completion of the multiple-year (decade?) Waldo Point Harbor redevelopment of the sea wall, parking lots, entry buildings and now the park along Bridgeway, many residents feel that the outward-facing image of the floating homes community is beginning to match the beauty and attractiveness...
There’s No Place Like (a Floating) Home for the Holidays
[masterslider alias=”ms-14-1-6-46″] Holiday celebrations take many forms on the waterfront. Blaze Nash transported carolers around the Waldo Point Lagoon on her little red tugboat Otto. Gate 6 1/2 and Issaquah staged progressive potlucks with entrees provided by the Floating Homes Association; Issaquah partiers were encouraged to wear Christmas sweaters: ugly,...
The Harbor Seal and the Great Blue Heron
The Harbor Seal and the Great Blue Heron — a poem and photos by Chris Tellis, Yellow Ferry Harbor — On a grey-green boat on a blue-green bay A brown harbor seal considered his day. Perhaps a short swim, then a nap in the sun He hauled out with ease,...
Holiday Tugboat Caroling – You’re Invited
YOU’RE INVITED! What? Holiday Tugboat Caroling Where? Upon the Waters of Our Floating Neighborhood* When? Monday Dec 11 (Weather Permitting) and/or Wednesday Dec 13 (Weather Permitting) Time? Between 5:30 and 9:30 p.m.—Locations depend on tide and access to floating homes How? You come to the Window or...
Big Doings on East Pier
Friday Nov 17 there was much to watch on East Pier as TJ Nelsen drove two new pilings behind No 2—that’s the one that started to float away from the dock at 5 a.m. one stormy morning last winter.
East Pier Adventurer
The newest world class mariner among our floating homes community is Lia Ditton. Originally from England, she has sailed 150,000 nautical miles, an equivalent of 8 laps around the globe! Her newest adventure involves rowing in a 21’ ocean rower from Japan to San Francisco. This 5,500-nautical-mile run, over 6 months, will...
Warm Farewell Despite the Weather
[masterslider alias=”ms-14-1-6-42″] The skies were misty, and so were many people’s eyes as Issaquah neighbors and other friends gathered to wish a fond farewell to Emily and Stuart Riddell. After 27 years on the dock, they’ve sold their floating home and are moving to Southern California to be closer to...
Swimming in a Sea of Talent
[masterslider alias=”ms-14-1-6-37″] A Boatload of Books—the place to find published works from and about our community—is easily accessed by clicking Boatload of Books in the column at right. Here are several new—and recently added—titles: In Our Hands, Wilford Welch. A handbook for intergenerational actions to solve the climate crisis,...
1st Annual Issaquah Pumpkin Bash
[masterslider alias=”ms-14-1-6-38″] HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Carving jack-o-lanterns is a great excuse for a dock party—not that Issaquah needs much prodding to gather at the L. Last Sunday Oct. 22 was the scene of the first ever annual Issaquah Pumpkin Bash. Check out the results!