I moved out of Ballard two years ago (after 8 years…it was tough saying good bye!).  I haven’t been back to Golden Gardens since I moved to West Seattle.  We live within 5 minutes walking distance of Alki Beach, so I haven’t seen the point of driving all the way back over there.  I forgot how beautiful Golden Gardens is!

I decided it might be a good idea to check it out on a weekend day just to see how insanely busy it would be.  Well…it was packed full of BBQers (the red dotted line is telling me that isn’t a word, but you know what I mean 🙂 ), sunbathers, picnickers, volleyball players, and just about everyone else in Seattle that runs out the minute the sun is shining :).   I did manage to find a few spots down towards the end of the beach that were less occupied, and even more beautiful.

Ok, honest Abe moment.  The cloud picture on the right is actually from the Safeway parking lot on our way home from Golden Gardens.  The clouds were so pretty!  I had to put them in 🙂