0306, 2019

Finding the Ship That Flew

Washington Our Home
June 3, 2019
History, Podcast, Recreation, Western Washington
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There are dozens of things to see and do on the Lewis and Clark Trail Highway in southwest Washington (see here and here for just a few examples), but surely one of the most unique lies just outside a tiny berg called Knappton on the bank of the Columbia River. If you head west from Knappton Cove you might spot a rusty barge parked in a shallow bay called Hungry Harbor. There is

1303, 2015

Sailors, Scavengers and Souvenirs

Washington Our Home
March 13, 2015
History, Puget Sound, Western Washington
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On the morning of Friday, March 13, 2015, the bones of Washington’s most well-known ferry were picked clean. Kalakala supporters who desperately searched for years for a way to save the prodigious icon could finally relegate their desire to restore the grand ship to the what-could-have-been. And history buffs longing to claim a piece of her for their own could finally do so, for as little as ten bucks. I

2201, 2015

The last voyage of the Kalakala

Washington Our Home
January 22, 2015
History, Puget Sound, Western Washington
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This time-lapse video documents the final voyage of the Kalakala. The former Washington state ferry was moved Thursday from the Hylebos Waterway, where it’s languished for more than a decade, to the Blair Waterway, where it will be dismantled for scrap.