Sunday Beach Walk

Sunday Beach Walk

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As I've written before, a favorite family activity when the weather permits is to walk down to Alki Beach from our house. We did so this morning during a few hours of dryness in the middle of a moist weekend.

You can see in the first photo where we live, near Schmitz Park Elementary School at the top of Schmitz Park. We can enter the park at the end of our street and walk downhill through the ravine. The trail eventually leads to an old road that has been closed to cars for decades. The road passes under a high bridge carrying Admiral Way, an arterial, and then leads to Alki Elementary School and playfield and Whale Tail Park.

Today the girls chose to walk right past the Whale Tail playground and continue on to the beach. They had a great time throwing rocks in the water, drawing in the sand, watching seagulls and running up and down their favorite grass embankment.

Then we wrapped up with a cup of cocoa and a bus ride back up the hill and finally a walk of a few blocks back to our house. Whenever we go on this outing Carol and I are grateful that we ended up choosing this house.