July 18 - Seattle; Ballard Locks

Since I was visiting a friend in Seattle, we spent as much time relaxing as we did touring.  We spent the afternoon of the first day exploring Seattle's Ballard Locks.  The Locks are also called the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, after the Army General (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) who developed the locks in the early 1900's.  One of my colleagues recommended the site to me because her father had worked at the locks in Seattle when he was in the army, and she lived with their family at the site for several years while she was growing up.  (I saw "their" house while I was there.)
 

Immediately below are pictures of the locks.
	The following pictures are of my colleague's house on the site.
Another thing for the visitors to the Ballard locks to see is the fish ladders.  I have never seen fish ladders before.  The viewing windows indoors were wonderful.  They even had pictures of the different fish that you might see so that you could identify them (it didn't really help me ... they just all looked like fish!)