The DOG park!

A few weeks ago, we were in "explore Seattle" mode and went to a nearby park that is up along Lake Washington and is supposed to have some nice beachfront - Magnuson Park. The bait that got us there was this: supposedly the band Sound Garden named themselves after an actual Sound Garden that is accessible from this park, which has vertical organ pipes topped with wind vanes up high on poles; these make pretty sounds when the wind blows. Well we went to the park and couldn't find this Sound Garden, or the beach, anywhere. We drove all around, found a nice little kayak and sailboat rental place and a popular-looking dog park, as well as a very large neighborhood garden plot, but no Sound Gardens or beaches. Wondering whether maybe this stuff was on the other side of the dog park, and being dog people anyhow, we let ourselves into the dog park and walked to the end of it. I felt a little like an outsider, being dogless, but nobody seemed to notice. The dogs were all having so much FUN it was a good time to watch. The weiner dogs especially seem to really like the dog park - they are definitely the social butterflies of the dog world. We found at the end of the park, a fenced-in walkway that everyone was heading for with their dogs, so we kept on going for at least a half-mile on this walkway until it finally opened up into a fenced-in beachfront area. Here is the beach! we thought. Actually, it was the dog-beach; we never did find the people beach (although there is a people-beach at a separate park, Matthews Park, up the shore a ways that we found later). Anyways the dogs at the dog park swimming in the lake was probably the most entertaining thing I've seen in a while and we stood and stared for a good fifteen minutes (if we hadn't been in full sun and without sunblock we probably would have stayed longer). We took a picture too!