Click here to see images of the historic tour.
June 22, 2009 -- The students of History 300 - West, Frontier Washington, assembled aboard the Freedom VII on Monday morning for a cruise of historic sites in Elliott Bay -- the same waters visited by George Vancouver and Peter Puget in 1792. We had the advantage of charts and a diesel engine. We used information on HistoryLink.org as a template for our voyage. For example below is a picture taked from Freedom of the lighthouse at Alki Point. From HistoryLink we read a moving account of the first families to arrive in Seattle, "stranded" at the point, and the women sitting down to have a "big cry."
Read full account of the landing of the "Denny Party" at Alki in HistoryLink.com.
Don't get too smug about this voyage you West Siders -- we here on the East Side have a voyage of our own planned for next week!
ReplyDeleteWe have great fun scheduled for next week... a rafting trip! Very cool class!
ReplyDeleteIts been a week since the cruise on the Sound checking out the seattle waterfront and Alki point. It was a blast and reflecting back on it, I really need to see more of the State that I have grown up in my entire life. It has inspired me to want to become a tourist of my own state. So it is what I'm going to do. This coming weekend I will be traveling to the olympic penisula and hiking to Rialto Beach(12 mi outside of Forks) and camping there. I wonder if I can find and historic significance of the area? I will search further and get back to all.
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