Exploring Vashon Island

Exploring Vashon Island - March 2018

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@jimpeterson5243 4 жыл бұрын

Many summers spent at Talequa on Pohl Rd. As kids we fished, dug clams and explored the woods and picking blackberries. No TV just our imagination now 50 years later we have tons of fond memories. We even saw a couple of Orcas. Thank you you God for Vashon!

@Backsoon35 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Jim were u there in the 80s?

@locke3862 5 жыл бұрын

I appreciate living on Vashon SO MUCH MORE

@paulohashi332 2 жыл бұрын

It's interesting to see your POV and your other comments. Here's my view. There was a large Japanese American farming community living on Vashon Island before WW2. Over a thousand. My mother was born there in early 1910s. She and her sister graduated from University of Washington in early 1930s among the first group of Japanese Americans to enter. In the community she learned Japanese language customs and traditions. But of course that was all destroyed during the evacuation of Japanese Americans during the start of WW2. My parents lost land and all property. What ever they could carry in suitcases was what they all left. My grandfather was arrested by FBI because he among the leaders in the community. And spent a year in federal prison before he was sent back to relocation camp with the family. So the US govt had lists of US citizens gathered before WW2.

@paulohashi332 2 жыл бұрын

Part 2. Of course my parents never talked about it. During the war they worked as farm laborers in Montana. After war, they started farming in eastern Oregon. During early 1950s my entire family moved to Los Angeles. My parents did come to visit Seattle where some family members came back. But they never back to the Island. Of course, I'm not blaming anybody who lives there now. That's almost 80 years ago. 3 generations back. But I wonder how many Japanese Americans came back. Thanks for letting me have this space for a little history that's all forgotten.

@the_elder_wand3845 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for touring me on this amazing island. I just subscribed!

@someloser8061 6 жыл бұрын

My Uncle, Aunt, and Cousin live on Vashon. Got to visit their house which is on the beach. Its amazing there

@AChickandaDuck 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve never even been to the PNW but my dream is to live on Vashon

@Madronaxyz 5 жыл бұрын

I moved to Vashon 25 years ago and from Inspiration Point, you could see Mt Rainier. It was beautiful, as was the view from my roof where I could see the Olympics to the west, the Cascades to the east, and Mt Rainier to the south. However, as the earthquake prone nature of the Pacific Northwest became known, people stopped cutting trees on steep slopes to prevent land slides in case of an earthquake. Without the trees, landslides can occur even in the absence of an earthquake.. A few weeks after I moved to Vashon Island in 1994, a man and a woman eating breakfast in their house on the North end suddenly found themselves in Puget Sound, toast, toaster and all. The neighbors above them had illegally logged for a view and after a heavy rain, the land just gave way.

@ndeedee8 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for doing this video. I hope you can return during some of our homey holiday celebration times and see the activity that surrounds us during the different holidays. Halloween is one of them, where more than a usual number of people dress up and the main street is closed while kids and families wander and trick-or-treat at the local businesses. I have been here for over 20 years and can't say enough about what a great place it is to live and raise a family.

@dimitrisnentidis797 6 жыл бұрын

Extremely nice content

@TheGdunham 4 жыл бұрын

Been there, will go back someday.

@BrokenAdam770 Жыл бұрын

Can you do Maury Island?

@luciencubano 6 жыл бұрын

I’m here now and he’s right ... it’s really awesome. #snapdragoncafe is cool. The sandwich (I can’t post the pic but it’s front of me as I write, the remains of it anyway, was great).

@sammysamsamsammy 6 жыл бұрын

Saw your hoodie and briefly thought this was Idubb's secret channel ;-) definitely going to check this island out

@brigitakopp6972 6 жыл бұрын

You were there and you have not visited the house where the best American humorist Betty MacDonald lived and wrote her bestseller books ...Egg and I, The plague and I, Anybody can do anything, and Onion in the stew, not to mention her books for children...

@laurao48 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@kellyswanfeldt4218 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, I visited Vashon because of Betty Macdonald's books especially 'Onions In The Stew...Which told her story of moving and living on Vashon. Beautiful book and funny !

@TheFeralcatz 4 жыл бұрын

How did you not go visit Abott Tryphon and the monastery? :(

@unappealingundesirable2826 Жыл бұрын

I was born in Seattle in 1973, where I grew up. Japanese-American. I was only on Vashon Island in 5th grade, when we went to Camp Sealth from school. I've been kind of fascinated with Vashon Island. Are there stores and businesses? Are there sufficient roads to drive? I'd likely go from West Seattle Fauntleroy, and then over to Tacoma afterwards. For such a short ride, does anybody actually go up on the inside part of the ferry?

@Madronaxyz 26 күн бұрын

Even for the brief ride from the south end of vashon island, called tahlequah a Cherokee name (!), it is worth getting out of your car and going to the upper level of the ferry. Reviews are the from the upper decks are fabulous. And every once in a while, you'll see an orca passing by. I still miss the boat that was on the tahlequah to point defiance run when I first moved here in 1994. The rhododendron. The rhododendron was very old, with brass railings and beautiful wood fittings and benches. You could completely circumnavigate the boat on the passenger deck. I missed the "Rhody"!

@meexuy1069 4 жыл бұрын

living on vashon is amazing, the only downside is how many tourists there are. the beaches will be full on weekdays during a global pandemic, I wish I was exaggerating

@vloko7 4 жыл бұрын

Hey, very nice quality video. What camera did you use? I was just at Vashon island recently. Great video!

@4fastdrs 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@vhswarrior2545 6 жыл бұрын

I live here🤙🏻

@smltvt 5 жыл бұрын

Me go

@smltvt 5 жыл бұрын

Me to

@bigz0035 4 жыл бұрын

@@smltvt Yo what's ur name. That's my old KZbin channel.

@charlymontiyourtube 6 жыл бұрын

I would appreciate if you guys can tell me the name and who sing the first song you guys use in this video. the lyrics goes something like: There's a place i have found in the shade on the ground far from our worries and our troubling. Thanks in advance/

@NYCStickyRice 5 жыл бұрын

Via the app Shazam, it's "The Boathouse" by Nikolas Jones. You can find it on KZbin. Love the song too!