Exploring Vashon Island

Exploring Vashon Island - March 2018

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6 жыл бұрын

One of the best things about visiting Vashon Island is that you get to take the ferry there and back. Prices can be a little steep… You can spend over $20 for a round trip ticket if you want to take your car over.
It takes about 10 or 15 minutes to cross over from Point Defiance to the southern tip of Vashon You can get out of your car and enjoy the views from the upper deck... well, unless you go on a day like today and it’s super foggy. Killer whales have been sighted on some of these ferry routes to and from the island. But all we saw today were some pooping birds…
Stop #3 was the country store and farm - a cute little shop that sells all sorts of gardening supplies, maps of the island, and some fantastic shirts.
We met a super friendly woman named Jan who told us all about the island and said that our next destination had to be the Snapdragon Café. This little restaurant and bakery is located in the center of the island and is known for their amazing soups and salads.
Well, who were we to say no to Jan? Again, the staff was really friendly and it’s a funky space that smells like freshly baked pastries. Although they are known for their salads, Taylor and I couldn’t resist the opportunity to try their egg sandwich, made with a buttered crescent and tons of gooey cheese.
After Fisher’s Pond we took a leisurely drive to what is probably the most iconic spot on Vashon island.
The Point Robinson Lighthouse has been in use since 1885 and sits on a 10 acre shoreline park. You can get tours of the lighthouse from mid-May through mid-Spetember.
Thanks to Taylor Rawson for being our tour guide today!

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@locke3862 4 жыл бұрын

I appreciate living on Vashon SO MUCH MORE

@jimpeterson5243 4 жыл бұрын

Many summers spent at Talequa on Pohl Rd. As kids we fished, dug clams and explored the woods and picking blackberries. No TV just our imagination now 50 years later we have tons of fond memories. We even saw a couple of Orcas. Thank you you God for Vashon!

@Backsoon35 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Jim were u there in the 80s?

@someloser8061 6 жыл бұрын

My Uncle, Aunt, and Cousin live on Vashon. Got to visit their house which is on the beach. Its amazing there

@the_elder_wand3845 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for touring me on this amazing island. I just subscribed!

@paulohashi332 Жыл бұрын

It's interesting to see your POV and your other comments. Here's my view. There was a large Japanese American farming community living on Vashon Island before WW2. Over a thousand. My mother was born there in early 1910s. She and her sister graduated from University of Washington in early 1930s among the first group of Japanese Americans to enter. In the community she learned Japanese language customs and traditions. But of course that was all destroyed during the evacuation of Japanese Americans during the start of WW2. My parents lost land and all property. What ever they could carry in suitcases was what they all left. My grandfather was arrested by FBI because he among the leaders in the community. And spent a year in federal prison before he was sent back to relocation camp with the family. So the US govt had lists of US citizens gathered before WW2.

@paulohashi332 Жыл бұрын

Part 2. Of course my parents never talked about it. During the war they worked as farm laborers in Montana. After war, they started farming in eastern Oregon. During early 1950s my entire family moved to Los Angeles. My parents did come to visit Seattle where some family members came back. But they never back to the Island. Of course, I'm not blaming anybody who lives there now. That's almost 80 years ago. 3 generations back. But I wonder how many Japanese Americans came back. Thanks for letting me have this space for a little history that's all forgotten.

@AChickandaDuck 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve never even been to the PNW but my dream is to live on Vashon

@dimitrisnentidis797 6 жыл бұрын

Extremely nice content

@ndeedee8 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for doing this video. I hope you can return during some of our homey holiday celebration times and see the activity that surrounds us during the different holidays. Halloween is one of them, where more than a usual number of people dress up and the main street is closed while kids and families wander and trick-or-treat at the local businesses. I have been here for over 20 years and can't say enough about what a great place it is to live and raise a family.

@TheGdunham 4 жыл бұрын

Been there, will go back someday.

@brigitakopp6972 5 жыл бұрын

You were there and you have not visited the house where the best American humorist Betty MacDonald lived and wrote her bestseller books ...Egg and I, The plague and I, Anybody can do anything, and Onion in the stew, not to mention her books for children...

@laurao48 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@kellyswanfeldt4218 Жыл бұрын

Yep, I visited Vashon because of Betty Macdonald's books especially 'Onions In The Stew...Which told her story of moving and living on Vashon. Beautiful book and funny !

@Madronaxyz 5 жыл бұрын

I moved to Vashon 25 years ago and from Inspiration Point, you could see Mt Rainier. It was beautiful, as was the view from my roof where I could see the Olympics to the west, the Cascades to the east, and Mt Rainier to the south. However, as the earthquake prone nature of the Pacific Northwest became known, people stopped cutting trees on steep slopes to prevent land slides in case of an earthquake. Without the trees, landslides can occur even in the absence of an earthquake.. A few weeks after I moved to Vashon Island in 1994, a man and a woman eating breakfast in their house on the North end suddenly found themselves in Puget Sound, toast, toaster and all. The neighbors above them had illegally logged for a view and after a heavy rain, the land just gave way.

@luciencubano 5 жыл бұрын

I’m here now and he’s right ... it’s really awesome. #snapdragoncafe is cool. The sandwich (I can’t post the pic but it’s front of me as I write, the remains of it anyway, was great).

@unappealingundesirable2826 Жыл бұрын

I was born in Seattle in 1973, where I grew up. Japanese-American. I was only on Vashon Island in 5th grade, when we went to Camp Sealth from school. I've been kind of fascinated with Vashon Island. Are there stores and businesses? Are there sufficient roads to drive? I'd likely go from West Seattle Fauntleroy, and then over to Tacoma afterwards. For such a short ride, does anybody actually go up on the inside part of the ferry?

@meexuy1069 3 жыл бұрын

living on vashon is amazing, the only downside is how many tourists there are. the beaches will be full on weekdays during a global pandemic, I wish I was exaggerating

@vhswarrior2545 5 жыл бұрын

I live here🤙🏻

@smltvt 4 жыл бұрын

Me go

@smltvt 4 жыл бұрын

Me to

@bigz0035 4 жыл бұрын

@@smltvt Yo what's ur name. That's my old KZfaq channel.

@sammysamsamsammy 5 жыл бұрын

Saw your hoodie and briefly thought this was Idubb's secret channel ;-) definitely going to check this island out

@4fastdrs 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@vloko7 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, very nice quality video. What camera did you use? I was just at Vashon island recently. Great video!

@TheFeralcatz 3 жыл бұрын

How did you not go visit Abott Tryphon and the monastery? :(

@marianab8529 3 жыл бұрын

i wanna live there

@bean8690 6 жыл бұрын

I live there now 😁 Perry's burgers is very good 👍

@wind1551 5 жыл бұрын

bob I agree I have lived her all my life

@Backsoon35 2 жыл бұрын

Is that a restaurant?

@charlymontiyourtube 5 жыл бұрын

I would appreciate if you guys can tell me the name and who sing the first song you guys use in this video. the lyrics goes something like: There's a place i have found in the shade on the ground far from our worries and our troubling. Thanks in advance/

@NYCStickyRice 5 жыл бұрын

Via the app Shazam, it's "The Boathouse" by Nikolas Jones. You can find it on KZfaq. Love the song too!