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Ballard Fish Ladder
The Ballard fish ladder was built in 1976 to allow salmon to fight their way to spawning grounds in the Cascade headwaters of the Sammamish River, which feeds Lake Washington. Visitors can watch the fish from underwater glass-sided tanks or from above (nets are installed to keep salmon from over-leaping and stranding themselves on the pavement). You can also watch sea lions munch on the salmon while the fish attempt to negotiate the ladder.
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Hiram M Chittenden Locks
Watching boats traverse these two locks on the Lake Washington Ship Canal exerts a strange Zen-like attraction for locals and tourists alike. The process takes between 10 and 30 minutes, depending on tides and lake levels and on whether the large or the small lock is used. Walkways allow an intimate look at the workings of these water elevators and a chance to view the vessels coming and going from Puget Sound to Lakes Union and Washington.
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Theo Chocolate Factory
What, perhaps you wonder, could possibly take the place of the free beer that came at the end of a Redhood Brewery tour? How about free chocolate? That's right - the old Redhood Brewery, empty for years since the company moved operations to Woodinville, has been reopened as a chocolate factory, and it does tours. Enough said.
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