Our Family Beach
Jimmy Hendrix
Lux's 1st Summer
Our Family Beach
History
Shipwreck Point was settled in 1930. The place is below the Windandtide neighborhood near Picnic Point and was originally owned by the Merrill and Ring Lumber Company. At the beginning, the residence was a tent. Eventually, the first room of their house was added, constructed from a dismantled pump house carried from Everett on a flatbed truck to Picnic Point and then towed by water on log “floats.” Additions were made during the Depression years, including a kitchen table, claw foot tub, and stairs and a stair railing salvaged from a ferry. Their chicken coop was once the wheelhouse of a tugboat!
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Ships and Barges
Ships, mostly worn out sailing vessels that were taking up valuable space at Seattle’s docks, were towed in to be burned so the iron could be salvaged. A large winch was installed in 1941-42 to make it easier to bring in the boats for burning. At least 26 sizeable ships were salvaged there during this period. The quite visible shipwreck that is still there (see it on Google Earth) is the Pacific Queen, a minesweeper that was built during WWII, but never saw action because the war ended before the ship was completed.
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What's Fun
Long walks on the beach. Hunting for and gathering seashells, beach agates, driftwood, ship artifacts, and other wonderful treasures we find on our long walks along the shoreline.
Campfires on cool evenings, popping popcorn on an open fire, enjoying smores and telling stories.
Playing soccer with my Catahoula Hound Dog is a blast. She just loves it and is quite good at it. She could compete with the Seattle Sounders, at least get the soccer ball away from them!.
Taking pictures of the beautiful sunrises and sunsets, the Olympic Mountaiins, ships that pass bye, and many other wonderful happings. Family dinners on the cabin deck with lots of great food, favorite beverages, kids playing, and guests and company.
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Wildlife
These are just of the few types of wildlife that we enjoy at Shipwreck Point.
- Bald Eagles
- Sea Otters
- Seals & Sea Lions
- Osprey (Seahawks)
- Canadian Geese & Many Other Waterfoul
Every year brings new wildlife babies and new critters. We of course enjoy the native silver and pink salmon that we can fish for right off the fron of the beach!
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Our Family Beach
The Pacific Queen
Bald Eagle on Ship
Music
Classic Rock and Roll
- The Eagles
- The Little River Band
- Styx
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Moody Blues
- Pink Foyd
Big Band Jazz
- Glen Miller
- Maynard Ferguson
- Bennie Goodman
- Chuck Mangione
- Count Basie
- Louis Armstrong
Classic Country
- Roger Miller
- Jerry Reed
- Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and Jerry Scoggins
- Dolly Pardon
- C.W. McCall
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The Moody Blues
Maynard Ferguson
Jerry Reed
My Dog Lux
A Catahoula Hound Dog
The Catahoula originated in North Central Louisiana in the geographic area around the Catahoula Lake from which it got its name.
The word Catahoula is of Choctaw Indian origin and is translated into English as "sacred lake", just as the Choctaw word Choekahoula means "sacred home."
Other names for the breed are the Catahoula Leopard Dog, Catahoula Cur, and Catahoula Hound.
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Lux with Isabelle
Lux has a kitty big sister named Isabelle. It took a long time for Lux to settle down and not treat Isabelle like a play thing but she was quite gentle and Isabelle was very patient and now they're best of friends!.
Isabelle was a ferril kitty from ther beach road and we got her as a very little kitten and she took to me a her human, first day home.
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Lux at Play
Lux loves to play soccer at the beach and she can play for hours which keeps me in shape.
We take daily walks and meet up on play dates with her boyfriend, a Rottweiler / Golden Lab mix named King..
Lux loves to go to the local parks and hunt squirrels. Catahoula Hounds are known to climb trees and when she was younger, I saw her go after a unsuspecting squirrel right up a tree!
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Lux at the Family Beach
If lux had her way we would never come home from the beach. She loves to camp over teh weekends in the spring and summer times.
Lux is not much of a swimmer but she does like to chase the Canadian Geese into the Puget Sound and make them fly.
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Lux and King
Lux the soccer dog
Lux Log Walking