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With maybe the last weekend of good weather, I decided to try a new bike ride. It looked like there should be a direct bike route from Bellevue to downtown Seattle. I parked the car just south of Bellevue. A boardwalk crosses the slough below the I-90 freeway and leads to Mercer Island. | |
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All across the island is a good trail. Sometimes it is beside the surface roads. This is by a park-and-ride. |
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Sometimes it is on a dedicated path beside the freeway. (In this case, two stories above.) |
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On the western side of the island, the freeway was covered and made into a park with several playing fields. (I am trying some Pano software, but the size of the pictures doesn't yet integrate well with the web pages.) |
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Across the floating bridge to Seattle, there is a dedicated biking/walking lane. |
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The view back to Mercer. The cars pass through a tunnel to get to Seattle. |
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There is a little tunnel for bikes as well! I discovered it this year. |
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On the other side is more parks that lead into Seattle. |
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There was a group of people playing bike polo in the park. They use their wheels to block the ball. |
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I went around to a few of the iconic places in Seattle. |
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Waterfall Garden Park is a hidden gem. It marks the site where the UPS company was started, and is a gift to the city of Seattle. You walk in and forget you are in the city. It is here |
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Nearby are some other fountains in a business park. This simple one has a sheet of water flowing uniformly over and around it. To me, it just looks so cool! |
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The sun was already going down on my trip back. That only made the reds more intense! |
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I discovered a new fruit! These trees were beside the path with brilliantly colored berries. Not knowing what they were, I tasted one - and it was good. Later I found it was called a Strawberry Tree. |
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Back on Mercer, the leaves were already starting to fall in places. |
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And a final look back at Seattle from Mercer Island. |