June 6 #7 First Avenue

We live on First Avenue North. This walk is through the section of our street south of us. First Avenue covers about 30 blocks in the Downtown area, the at Denny Way, turns into First Avenue North. (We live about 25 blocks north of Denny.)

After spending an hour in the Market, then heading outside, we became aware that the weather was not really that good. It was warm, but rather gray and dismal.

There are some fairly expansive views of Elliott Bay at the intersections of this walk.

As we proceeded on our walk, we discovered that one of our favorite restaurants, The Flying Fish, has closed its First Avenue location! Whew - they just moved to Westlake Avenue North. We do not generally walk in this area, we mostly just drive through on our way to someplace else, so it was good to see all of the shops and restaurants here. Still, it is not an especially interesting area, architecture-wise. We walked up First, turned left onto Bell, and continued across the bridge over Alaskan Way. The walk called for us to enjoy the view from the Bell Street Pier observation deck. Alas, when a cruise ship is docked at this pier the dock is closed - security. We were nonetheless able to enjoy the view south along Alaskan Way.

These were a good pair of walks to do together; most enjoyable despite the overcast.