Today on Travel Tuesdays we take a look at Seattle’s skyline, as seen from a ferry.

We’ve been here in Seattle 2.5 months, and we finally got around to taking a ferry to Bainbridge Island this past Saturday.  We’ve had unusually nice, mostly sunny  weather for the past week or so. It was a more typical Seattle day on Saturday, though.

Some might call it gray, but I’ll call it atmospheric.

View of Seattle from the ferry before we left Seattle; there are mountains in the distant fog

Still, you can get a nice view of the skyline from the ferry, even when it’s gray — er, atmospheric.

Seattle, straight head

Seattle Skyline

Zooming in on the Seattle Skyline

It was interesting that from Bainbridge island, you don’t see the whole skyline, at least not from the ferry landing. Here’s a shot taken just before the ferry started moving:

Artistically toned view from Bainbridge Island

Also, the rain left behind a puddle or two that I spotted on the ferry deck on the way back. So, even if the weather wasn’t ideal, finding a reflection in a puddle is never bad.

Puddle on the Ferry

Puddle on the Ferry – #2

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P.S. I used to watch the tv sitcom Frazier back in the day. At the beginning, a graphic “sketched” the Seattle skyline.

Screenshot from Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-SFhhnBwdA

I’m not sure if the skyline in Frazier is actually possible.  The little pointed tower is far over to the right in the real skyline when seen from the ferry, which puts it at the opposite end of the city from the Space Needle. It’s hard to understand where you’d have to be to get the pieces put together that way, since the tower and the Needle are so far apart in reality. But maybe I just haven’t been to the right place in town to see that. Or maybe there’s just a little artistic license going on in that graphic. Anyway, FWIW, I’ve linked that screenshot to a video that someone put together of all the variations in that opening graphic on Frazier. I had no idea that the opening graphic had so many different things happening in it, but there are balloons, moons, helicopters, etc. Fun!