Walk Through Lincoln Park in West Seattle

Last Friday Monday hubby called me up and asked if I wanted to go for a walk in West Seattle. Sure! I'm always up for a walk along the beach at Alki. But this sounded really nice compared to our usual nightly walk. Okay, as I've said before, we are trying to get out walking every day and lately our walks have been around the track at the school. Can we say boring. Yeah.

Well, even though I was thinking Alki, hubby was thinking Lincoln Park. What a nice change of pace! Through the years, we've taken the kids to the park for picnics, frisbe, and baseball. It's a beautiful 135 acre park, located on the waterfront in West Seattle.

We walked the perimeter of the park... all the way down the hill to the waterfront. The views of the islands are beautiful. But here's the thing... remember where we've been walking? The track. It's flat. Flat and boring... but very flat. The park is on the hill. Ummm.. in some parts of the country (Kansas - Oklahoma - Texas) they would call it a mountain. So the park is on a really big hill. What walks down... must walk up.

Good thing there were benches and big rocks along the way. On our way up the hill, I sat down and huffed and puffed as quietly as possible. I wouldn't want people to know I'm out of shape. Nooo... lol  Not in Seattle... land of the fit.

It was a wonderful evening. When we left the park, we picked up a Subway sandwich and had a picnic on the other side of West Seattle, watching the sun go down.

Okay, I'm sharing some photos taken with my cell phone...

 

If you look closely, you can see the ferry in the distance... through the trees.



 

Do you see that tree top? Like I said... we are way up on the hill.

 

 

The trails through the park are really nice.



 

Sea level...  



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