Fresh SpotPrawns Fit for a King at Squalicum Harbor
Live Spot Prawns at Squalicum Harbor
If you have been driving around Bellingham lately, you may have noticed signs advertising “Live Spot Prawns” at Squalicum Harbor.Â
Buying Spot Prawns at Squalicum Harbor
Well let me tell you,  if you have not taken the time to drive down to visit Andy and Sandy Fisk on their fishing vessel “Bear Paw” you should. They are the owners of Mad Jax’s Sea Food.  Andy and Sandy provide sea food directly from the Puget Sound to your dinner table. Andy told me that, in season, they’ll have spot prawns, salmon & crab. People were lined up to buy their spot prawns which were kept in a live tank aboard their fishing boat. If you are look’n for fresh, this is as good as it gets.
Andy and Sandy proudly say that they are a local commercial fishing family that sustainably harvests and markets their own catch. Their spot prawn season runs from June 17th until mid August while the dungeness crab season begins in October and runs though March.
While I was on the dock, I had the pleasure of meeting another fisherman Tom Faulkner. Tom will have an ample supply supply of fresh salmon as well as the season develops.Â
Anyway, if you are looking for fresh seafood, you’ll find none finer than what you can get from our local fisherman. Andy and Sandy even gave me one of their favorite recipes “Classic Shrimp Boil”. Lylene and I will try it out tonight.
Last weekend, The Johnson Team and company, mobilized by key beach cleanup organizer and Johnson Team agent Mike Bredeson, spent a sunny Saturday afternoon down at Squalicum Beach in Bellingham. Mike partnered with Bellingham ReSources’ beach naturalist Doug Stark to choose the location and to get the word out The Johnson Team clients and ReSources members as well. The cleanup day also welcomed Kim Bredeson’s expert BBQing skills.
More than 30 people attended the 2 hour long event, collecting more than 300 pounds of trash along the approximately 100-yard beach. The Johnson Team was welcomed by an ambitions bunch of volunteers, many of whom were scaling blackberry bushes and digging through brush to collect trash.
More than 30 volunteers gathered to clean one of Bellingham's fave beaches.
The Johnson Team hopes to continue to organize impromptu Saturday volunteer cleanups. The Johnson Team is committed to preserving Whatcom County’s most precious natural resources, such as area streams and beaches like the one at Squalicum.
For more information on Johnson Team volunteer opportunities contact us at info@johnsonteamrealestate.com or call our office at (360) 527-8766.
Central Business District in Bellingham, Washington is probably the most diverse neighborhood in Bellingham. The area includes a smorgasboard of businesses, services, activities and living choices.Â
Squalicum Harbor - Fisherman' Memorial
Bellingham’s waterfront includes
Squalicum Marina, Zuanich Park with its Fisherman’s Memorial, a variety of marine related services such as Bellingham Marine and Lummi Fish & some of Bellingham’s finest restaurants.
Whatcom Creek, the former home of the Roeder Family lumber mill in the 1850’s & Maritime Heritage Park
The home of the City & County offices, Post Office & Bellingham Museum
The downtown business core including local favorites such as The Green House, The Horse Shoe Cafe, Hohl Feed & Seed & a variety of others.
A trip downtown would not be complete without walking down Railroad Ave & perhaps stopping for a roll at Avenue Bread or a bagel at The Bagelry
On the week-end, the Farmers Market is a must
The Interurban Trail takes you through what will become one of Bellingham’s most cherished spots ie: the redesign of the former Georgia Pacific site.
Through this entire area there are a variety of housing choices which range from a boat slip for the live aboards at Squalicum Marina, to a variety of apartment & condo choices in the downtown & waterfront areas.
For those interested in housing available in the Bellingham Central Business District or Downtown Bellingham, you can access the downtown Bellingham real estate opportunities offered by the Johnson Team by clicking here.
There is a photo gallery & a virtual tour of the Bellingham Central Business District & Downtown Bellingham on The Johnson Team web site.
For those of you who own real estate in the Bellingham Central Business District & would like a quick on-line evaluation of value for your property, click here.
Whatcom Creek as it spills into Bellingham Bay.
This is the former site of the Roeder & Peabody saw mill built in the early 1850's. A slice of Bellingham’s history that comes from the Central Business District's past would include the following chain of events that resulted in Henry Roeder & Russell Peabody building a saw mill. The site of the mill was on the east side of Whatcom Creek where the creek spilled over a water fall into Bellingham Bay. You might think it strange that these two entrepreneurs would choose an undeveloped site in a spot primarily known only by the local Indian tribes, but it just so happened that at this time the sailing fleet needed the perfectly formed fir trees found in Whatcom County. The fleet that supplying the California gold fields with everything from gold pans to bacon was being battered as it rounded the Horn of Africa & as a result needed a local supply of timber to re-fit the masts, spars & planking that was damaged during the trip. Roeder & Peabody supplied that need with their saw mill at Whatcom Creek, which is now the home of the Maritime Heritage Park. For those of you who would care to contribute to the section of our blog “Whatcom County Remembered“, by including your memories of the area, I’d encourage you to contact us. Too many of the stories of Whatcom County history are being lost. It would be nice to create an informal forum for those past thoughts & memories to be recorded for all to share. We’d love to include your articles & photos.
The City of Bellingham describes the Central Business District Neighborhood in the following manner:
The Central Business District Neighborhood/City Center is Bellingham’s core downtown neighborhood and central waterfront. It is the dominant cultural, civic, financial and service center of the community.
The City Center is a collection of smaller neighborhoods, each of which has distinct features that reflect historical land uses, topography and geographic location. For example, the Old Town area was shaped by the economics of the Port of Bellingham, while the Commercial Core Area has a long-standing tradition of general retail. Railroad Avenue has a unique identity as well, which in part comes from the very wide street that reflects the existence of a rail line earlier in the City’s history.
The Civic Center lies along the northern edge of downtown and spans Whatcom Creek. Buildings in this area house City and County offices as well as a variety of other governmental services. The Post Office and Public Library are also a part of this complex. The cultural district focal points include historic buildings containing the Whatcom Museum of History and Art and the Mt. Baker Theater. The Hillclimb, a ceremonial stairway leading from Holly Street to the Civic Center and Cultural District also serves as an outdoor amphitheater in Maritime Heritage Park on Whatcom Creek. Whatcom Creek Trail and Greenway runs along the northern border of the neighborhood and provides a pedestrian connector from the waterfront to adjacent neighborhoods. The central waterfront historically supported industrial uses and commercial fishing. It includes Squalicum Harbor Marina, Zuanich Point Park and commercial/industrial areas primarily managed by the Port of Bellingham. The City and the Port have recently joined forces to create a redevelopment plan for 137 industrial waterfront acres acquired by the Port with homes, shops, offices and light industry, as well as parks and promenades, a healthy shoreline habitat along Bellingham Bay, and a new marina.
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