The 1885 lighthouse makes a scenic backdrop for pictures, and the keepers’ quarters are now vacation rentals (they cost about $200 per night during the off-season). You can take a short wooded trail from the parking lot to the beach and enjoy a magnificent view of majestic Mount Rainier at the end of the trail. Once you take the ferry over to Vashon, you should head straight for Point Robinson on Maury Island, which is attached to Vashon by a man-made isthmus. These are some of the island’s sights that you must see during your visit: a rocky beach at Lisabuela Park, a wooded beach at Fern Cove, or go to Jensen Point Park, where you can launch kayaks and boats. The residents are really keen on preserving the environment of the island.
You can rent electric bikes to roam around the island as well. The island is only 13 miles long, but its 45 miles of shoreline makes for a lot of great beaches. That is, on a very basic level, one of the things that makes Vashon a special place.” And the nice thing is we are 20 minutes away to two major cities. There’s plenty of places to hike, to bike.
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These mezzanine decks are not connected, except via the main passenger cabin, allowing for a full 16 feet (4.Jim Marsh, executive director of Vashon’s Chamber of Commerce said: “One of the things we all love about this place is that we are lucky to live in a beautiful environment, we’ve got forests, we’ve got water views, we’ve got beaches. The Chetzemoka is also the first vessel in the Washington State Ferries fleet to have a mezzanine deck, between the main passenger cabin and the car deck, which on one side is primarily configured to hold bicycles (instead of them being relegated to the car deck), and the other simply for passengers. Only the Super-class, Jumbo-class, and Jumbo Mark II-class ferries allow such access. The Chetzemoka is also the first "smaller scale" vessel to allow access to the "Texas Deck", the area on top of the vessel between pilot houses. When the boat is loaded, the list is not noticeable. This oddity in design has given the vessel a pronounced 1 degree list, causing some to call the vessel 'Eileen' (I Lean). The Chetzemoka's design is somewhat unusual for a Washington State Ferry, as the vessel has two elevators, multiple stairwells, and a smoke stack on the same side of the ferry, instead of being symmetrical, aside from having a single elevator on one side of a typical Washington State Ferry. The particular class has had some mechanical issues, causing some in Washington to question the use of the design. The Chetzemoka's design is based on that of the MV Island Home, a ferry that is owned by The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority.
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The Chetzemoka began service to Vashon Island on January 23, 2012, replacing the now-retired MV Rhododendron on the Point Defiance-Tahlequah route. The vessel was named after the Klallam chief Chetzemoka, who was influential during the early European-American settlement of Port Townsend. The ferry was christened by Governor Christine Gregoire It was scheduled to start on the Port Townsend-Coupeville (Keystone) route in September 2010, but sea trials revealed excessive vibrations in the vessel's propulsion system. MV Chetzemoka ("The Chetzy") is a Kwa-di Tabil-class ferry built at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, Washington for the Washington State Ferries.
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