West Seattle (sunny!) Saturday: What else is up today/tonight

(Photo shared by Leo Shaw)
The egg hunts are listed separately (find them here), but there’s a lot more happening too! Full list on the WSB West Seattle Events page; here are a few highlights:

WINE SALE: 2nd and final day of the Northwest Wine Academy Spring wine sale at South Seattle Community College (6000 16^th Avenue SW), noon-4 pm. Details here.

ED HUME AT BRIDGE PARK: “Thinking outside of the pot” gardening demonstration with Ed Hume at Bridge Park (3204 SW Morgan Street), 2 pm. Free. Details here.

EYES ON THE SKIES: Mariners Salute to Armed Forces Night means two EA-18Gs are scheduled to fly over Safeco Field just before 6 pm – could mean a (loud) West Seattle flyover, so this is your heads-up, just in case.

OPEN HOUSE: Take a look inside Link Apartments (WSB sponsor), during its 11:30 am-3:30 pm open house today (since it’s so clear, don’t miss the rooftop deck).

BENEFIT DINNER/AUCTION AT WEST SEATTLE EAGLES: West Seattle Eagles benefit dinner, silent auction and live music to benefit the Mukilteo Magic, a special group of athletes who compete in track and field competitions throughout the region. All monies raised at the event will be used to send the team to the “Summer Olympics” at Joint Base Lewis McChord in June. All-you-can-eat spaghetti and meatballs with Caesar salad and garlic bread from 6-7:30. Cost for dinner is $10. Following dinner, live music by Vincent Blackshadow, a 15-year-old rock superstar; Call for the Priest, a Judas Priest cover band; and a short set by My Sisters Machine. $6 cover for music. All are welcome! Please use the back door, on the alley by Lady Di’s.

LIVE AT KENYON HALL: From Kenyon Hall:7:30 pm, the AMA Trio: accordion, clarinet, Venezuelan and Mexican harp, violin, cuatro, guitar, bombo, maracas, and vocals. Reserved table seats are $14. Row seating is $12 general and $10 seniors. With a reservation, row seating is only $10 general and $8 seniors. Elementary, middle, & high school students are $5. Preschool children are free; Root Beer Floats are still only a buck. To make a reservation, e-mail kenyonhall@earthlink.net.

Rhonda Porter April 23, 2011 (9:15 am)

where was that awesome photo taken?

Tina April 23, 2011 (9:18 am)

What are they sitting on?

WSB April 23, 2011 (9:20 am)

Rhonda – Leo sent the pix with only the line “Friday’s reasons for going to Alki.” I’ve sent a followup.
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Tina – someone asked the same question on our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/westseattleblog and my educated guess is, a patch of seaweedy shallowness exposed by Friday afternoon’s low tide (it wasn’t as low as a couple days earlier, but it was low enough).
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Just love the folks who share great photos that land in the WSB inbox out of the blue (and today/yesterday we do mean BLUE!) – TR

LisaM April 23, 2011 (9:38 am)

does anyone know if the plant sale is this weekend for FCAT?

Leo April 23, 2011 (10:37 am)

Otters were on rock just off Constellation Marine Reserve south of Alki lighthouse. These 2 are juveniles… 3:30pm on Friday. They were catching flounder and using rock as dinner table.

WSB April 23, 2011 (11:16 am)

Lisa – they often post those sales in our Forum and I don’t see one there. And nobody has e-mailed us anything for our calendar …
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Re: Photo location. Leo says it was Constellation Park (south of Alki Point).

KristinaNoir April 23, 2011 (11:36 am)

Next time there is an otter in W. Seattle I need to be notified immediately so I can get some shots of them!!!! I have been searching for wild otters for the 2 years that I’ve been here. I’m slightly obsessed.

Leo April 23, 2011 (12:37 pm)

Kristina;
Photographing otters is usually a matter of persistence and luck. I always have my camera with telephoto with me…
And I have had great luck lately….otters mating at Lincoln Park 4/12 and the ones yesterday…a very unusual week…and I spend lots of time at the beach.