Dec 21, 2009 13:08 - By: Whit Honea
Cougar Mtn. Zoo Reindeer Festival
The Cougar Mountain Zoo in Issaquah, WA (15 miles East of Seattle) is worth visiting year round. The zoo is located, literally, on Cougar Mountain with a beautiful view of the Cascade Mountains and Lake Sammamish. The primary focus of the Cougar Mountain Zoo is education and endangered species. It’s an outing and it’s a cause.
But we’re talking reindeer. Read More »
Dec 04, 2009 16:44 - By: Whit Honea
It, you may have noticed, is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Want to get into the act? All you need is a big belly, a sleigh and some happy help. The beard (and shirt) are optional.
Other holiday favorites include shopping. From Arizona to Gilman Village, people are dropping what little loot they have left on stuff for you so you, so jolly up. No matter where your holiday travels take you there are gifts to be found. This is a fact.
Hit the road shopping, people. It’s merry time.
Photo by Whit Honea
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Oct 08, 2009 15:15 - By: Whit Honea
Like any good fish story, this one got away. That’s right, you just missed Salmon Days in Issaquah, WA and you should be ashamed of yourself. Go ahead and cry it out. I’ll wait.
Okay, enough. You brought it upon yourself. Now sit still and let me tell you what you missed, aka, rub it in.
Every year about this time the salmon leave the deep, salty waters of Seattle’s Puget Sound and they start swimming. They swim through lakes and streams and wind their way to Issaquah Creek, where the water is shallow and clear. They swim all the way to the hatchery in which they were born, they do their thing with the eggs and the stuff and then they die. Needless to say the salmon don’t find the occasion as festive as we do. I watched them for hours and never saw a single party hat. Read More »
