UPDATE: Canoe Journey continues with Alki departures

11:50 AM: One by one, the canoe families are leaving Alki Beach, carrying their wooden canoes to the water and paddling off to the next stop, hosted by the Suquamish Tribe on the Kitsap Peninsula, ultimately headed for the Lummi Nation, this year’s hosts at journey’s end. (And yes, this is what the helicopter is circling Alki for; it’s a TV chopper.) More photos to come.

1:04 PM: The Duwamish Tribe has joined the Paddle to Lummi – after we left Alki, we found the Duwamish canoe launching from Don Armeni:

Back at the beach, Alki photographer David Hutchinson says all have left, just one canoe (flying the Chehalis flag) left on the beach. He sent this photo:

ADDED FRIDAY NIGHT: Carrying a canoe back to the water posed some challenges:

It was something to watch with admiration:

The departures continued:

Still adding!

2 Replies to "UPDATE: Canoe Journey continues with Alki departures"

  • The King July 19, 2019 (3:33 pm)

    Hopefully they were able to get out of there before the wastewater treatment plant dumped the three million gallons of sewage in the water. This is terrible. 

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