Seattle’s Public Market Center

We love this place.  Many towns have markets similar to this but it’s just not the same.  This place sits overlooking the Seattle harbor.  The many vendors sell just about everything from fresh fruits and vegetables to fresh “wild” salmon.  There are flowers and t-shirts and many one-of-a-kind crafts to catch the tourist’s eye and their pocket book.

 

There are also many different restaurants offering a fantastic view.  Order a meal, pick a seat and enjoy watching the ferries and other sea-going traffic in the harbor.  Having three floors of unique shops this place is definitely fun to visit.

Some restaurants offer booths overlooking the waterfront.  This seating area was for anyone who just wanted to sit down and rest.

Parking in Seattle can be expensive.  If you’re lucky enough to find a meter, you are very lucky.  If not, you have no alternative other than to find a close parking lot.  One lot advertised parking for $4 an hour.  We didn’t find that one right off.  We only discovered it after we had parked.  The one we found charged us $12 for the hour.  Actually it was $10 plus about $2 of some sort of tax.  Oh well, the parking lot was just across the street from where we wanted to go and it was convenient.  Well, the $4 lot was only a block away so it was pretty convenient too.

We walked through the market place and were even offered a few samples of smoked salmon.  Wild salmon is much more popular in this part of the country than in other parts.  We normally stay away from purchasing farmed salmon.  Wild salmon is definitely a better choice in our opinion.  However, we didn’t purchase any.  It was very tempting.  The salmon meat was fresh and pink and without the added red dye tint of many farmed fish. We just looked.  I wanted some but that’s as far is it got.

After leaving downtown Seattle, we took Hwy 99 south instead of the freeway.  We wanted to check out the Burien Elks.  Other than the Elks lodge in Bremerton, Burien was the only other one that offered RV parking close to the center of Seattle.  However, they have a total of seven sites and those were full when we visited.  We figured we wouldn’t try to stay there.  

We did see a couple interesting RVs when we got off on the wrong road.  We didn’t want to stay there either.

It was a great little trip and we’re looking forward to our next adventure.  One thing for sure is that this little outing made me antsy to do another one.