Quick new year’s day walk around Discovery Park and down to the beach. Parking is free and plentiful though it can fill up fast. Additionally the lot next to the visitors center was closed for construction. Restrooms were open though the sani-can that had been down at the beach area is no longer there. We actually parked at the Hiram Chittenden locks and walked over using the super secret pedestrian bridge over the railroad tracks, (you didn’t hear it from me, but it’s at the end of 33rd Ave W just south of Commodore Way.) The Discovery Park trails are generally in good shape though both the north and south beach access trails are a bit muddy as they normally are this time of year. However the BIG, BIG news trail wise is that the partially collapsed wonky tilted creek bridge on the north beach trail has finally been replaced! I couldn’t believe it! The new structure is very nice and so much safer.
Down at the beach you could really see the effect of the king tides, basically the entire beach is covered in water and driftwood has been thrown way up into the beach grass. Pretty quiet wildlife wise but there were a fair number of different ducks, a bunch of gulls,, a couple heron and one grumpy looking seal. A very nice, relatively easy first walk of the year. Happy New Year’s everybody.
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