Duwamish tour, part 2. Photos and descriptions after the break, due to the # of photos.
At the crush-n-shred plant, we had to turn around due to fishing nets strung across the river.
One last look down (up!) the river to the South Park bridge
We headed back to the
mouth of the river. (This batch of photos will be of the East bank of the river) There is
definitely wildlife in and around the Duwamish, though those with long memories may remember a
time when this wasn't so. It was nice to see quite a few Great Blue Herons hanging out on
the river.
Back under the First Avenue Bridge...
"No
Bump"!
I just love engineering.
We passed some tribal fishermen tending to their nets. The tribes have treaty rights
for commercial fishing in the Duwamish, the only commercial fishing there. 
Another cement plant. The inter-
workings of all the conveyor belts and mechanics / logistics of industry fascinate me.
View
of downtown Seattle over part of the Saint-Gobain Glass Container plant (the green and gray
matter in the foreground is crushed and broken post-production glass and other materials which are
recycled later)
More
dredging derricks
Tribal fishing nets tied to a barge
Part
of the Ashgrove (?) cement plant:
Tug with a Lehigh cement barge:
Originally built in 1930-32 as a Ford Assembly Plant, this building has had a variety of
uses since WWII, and now serves as a freighting spot for Alaskan and military sources (among
others).
Then we went past another restored spot on the riverbank, again with public access.
I took this picture just because I liked the colors.
Power pole with an airplane and an Osprey
View of downtown across West Seattle Bridge and more industry.
Next a small marina, liked this little red boat.
And this one.
More engineering, as we head back under the West Seattle Bridge and the Spokane Street
Bridge.
Along Harbor Island's west edge, there's a former grain/flour mill. Purantos is a provider of products and services to bakers, pastry chefs and chocolatiers. The other tenant of the 90,000-square-foot warehouse is Pendleton Flour Mills.
Back past the container ships being unloaded... and some passing geese:
Downtown Seattle over the Harbor Island Tank Farm.
Sunset through crane and containers...
A ferry in a Todd Shipyard drydock - couldn't figure out whose ferry it was, I don't think it's one of WA state's ferries.
Looking back up/down the river at the West Seattle Bridge
Todd Shipyards drydock and Downtown Seattle
Last part of the trip in the next post - Duwamish part 3!
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