A Diamond in the Rough

Jetty Island is such a special place for Kids....in a not so special place.  Everett Washington isn't much to talk about but it does have Jetty Island (and Uncle Rich lives there too), other than that there isn't much else in this fairly large city.

To get to Jetty Island you get to take a very short boat ride (about 5 minutes).  I'm pretty sure Keaton wet through his swim diaper on the ride over because his spot was very wet when he got up.  Once you get there you have to get a ticket for the boat ride back.  It was a busy day so we were only able to get a ticket for a ride in a few hours....but knew we would have more than a few hours of fun so we took our chances and decided to go standby on the way back instead of using our ticket.  That turned out to be both good and bad. We didn't get on the boat we wanted but did get to ride a special boat back (aka one of the worker boats) with a few other standby passengers and they let Keaton drive.

The water at Jetty Island is VERY warm.  It is ocean water but is very shallow for a long ways out so it stays super warm. Shallow Water + Warm Water = Fun for Kids!  And we got lucky this time because the tide was in so we didn't have to walk FOREVER to get to the water.

 

 

Keaton loves to be buried in the sand so we gave in and buried him...

It was a very fun day at a very unique spot that way too many people know about!  We will be back before summer is over!