Ever since we had moved to Sequim, I had heard so much about Olympic Peninsula people going to the Seattle Pike Market for some Seattle shopping or just having an excursion to the big city. Our recent guests at our Sequim vacation rental were also full of excitement about the Pike street market in Seattle. When you are staying for a month in Sequim, you should definitely spend a day or two in Seattle.
Well, I guess it was time to see for myself and pay Pike Market in Seattle a visit. Two of our Sun Meadows neighbors were up for the challenge too. Day and time was set fast. We decided to take the Bainsbridge Ferry which docks right downtown Seattle with a short walk to the market. We would just leave the car on our side of the Puget Sound and take it easy.
Driving Hwy 101, 104 and Hwy 3 to Bainsbridge was nice, easy traffic and beautiful Washington scenery passing by. Maybe we took a little too much time cruising along. So we actually arrived at Bainsbridge ferry parking a bit late, and none of us had a clue what to do. We parked the car and walked to the ferry where we saw the sign "Ferry Parking has to be paid in advance". How and where, we had no idea. There was no sign where we had left the car. I nice shop-owner told us we had to go back and get the number of our parking lot in order to pay for the day. We ran back, got the number, gave the nice lady the money to pay for our parking and ran in super-speed on the ferry. We just made it! Time to exhale!
Now, we could relax, have some morning snack and look forward to our Pike Street Market adventure. After a short ferry transit of 30minutes, we landed in Seattle and followed the crowd to the shops and restaurants along the Seattle Pier. Summer time! Beautiful weather! A big Seattle vacation crowd was walking up and down the street. We joined and found our way up a huge long staircase to Pike Market! Three floors of seemingly never ending shops and stands, selling fruits and veggies, flowers in all colors and sizes of bunches and prices and so much more. Fun to walk around and look at everything. We had a nice lunch with soup and steamed ginger salmon at a Chinese place (sorry but forgot the name).
After the street market, we were ready to visit the Seattle Aquarium. Admission is not cheap. $15 per person. It does not list any senior discount. When you are a senior, just ask for it. It saves you $2. We watched all that wonderful exotic and tropical ocean life for some time, touched the sea stars in the touch pools and watched the feeding of the Harbor Seals. All together, we had a great time at our Seattle Pike Market Outing.
We can really recommend the tour to anybody being here on a Sequim vacation. The ferry traffic on the Bainbridge side during afternoon hours is kind of stop and go. Maybe it's better to hang around Seattle a bit longer, visit the Seattle Space Needle and take a later ferry, but who knows. This is what we did.
Stay tuned for more from our Sequim life. Greetings from the Sequimers
p.s.
Sequim local News
We totally missed to inform everybody about the Celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Sequim Lighthouse. Hope you all read the Sequim This Week with the announcement. We enjoyed a wonderful picnic with plenty of food and entertainment on Sunday afternoon which was put on by the New Dungeness Light Station Association in Pioneer Park.
The Sequim Senior Center has a huge yard rummage sale on Thursday August 8 and Friday August 9th from 9am - 3pm each day. Proceeds from the sale will support the center's operating budget and provide scholarships for Sequim are high school seniors.
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