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Someone just forwarded Seattlest the coolest Washington State ferry pictures of all time saying they were embedded in an email going around the office. We'll paste them all below, in order and with the authors commentary intact. If you took these or if you know of a place online where we can link to these, please email Seattlest. [UPDATE: We've been directed to the Bitter End blog, although he didn't take them either. Ross Fotheringham took them, it turns out. Thanks for coming forward, Ross--We removed the cropped versions in favor of your tagged ones.]
On Thursday October 18th Western Washington was hit with a 50+ MPH wind storm. Here are my pictures of the event.After work I made my way down to the Mukilteo Lighthouse Park where I witness the Mukilteo to Clinton ferry taking a
pounding.These Issaquah 130 Class ferries are over 300 feet long and 78 feet wide and weight in at 2477 tons (4,954,000 lbs) unloaded......
I'll start with some Rock & Roll..
Ok, here's one for you Long Flume lovers...During storms like this the crew plots a course which puts the ferry in the least vulnerable position, but at some point they have to change course, and when they did Puget Sound made up for lost time.
After this run the ferry system stopped running at full capacity and ran 1/2 empty for the rest of the night.
Note that there are no longer cars visible in the last shot. I'm sure they were washed into the cars behind themEach shot was taken 0.3 seconds apart hand held at 320mm's.
I offered these photos to the WS Ferry System, but they told me these kinds of shots don't promote ridership. I couldn't argue that one.
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We were on a ferry from Friday Harbor to Anacortes last December that rocked just like that. They tried to change course a couple of times and wound up aimlessly drifting along for a while as everyone on board tested their sea legs. It's cool to see what it must have looked like.
Wow. I wanted to take a ferry ride that day too. I wonder if they let people onto the decks...
I think the photos come from a guy named Russ Fotheringham (http://www.pbase.com/trackside_photography/landscape__nautical)
Never in a million years would I have got on that ferry, I wonder how many sick bags they went through? can you imagine watching that happening whilst you are in the Que for the next ride, ho ho no chance. Glad they all made it over save and well.