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Lake Union Portage Bay Houseboats at Night in Seattle<\/p><\/div>\n

Photograph: Panasonic TZ5 (point and shoot), 15sec, f3.3, ISO100<\/sup><\/i><\/p>\n

On a Seattle night, with stars cloaked in stratocumlus clouds, when the only sight is a wisp of a rowing scull slithering under the University Bridge<\/a>, the houseboats sit reflected and polished in the waters of Lake Union.<\/p>\n

I shot this near Eastlake, on Portage Bay<\/a>, one of several houseboat locations around Seattle. What was once a community of floating homes in the thousands, is now a collection of 500 or so on Lake Union. Earlier this spring, I wrote a bit about Lake Union’s industrial development<\/a>, its place in Ship Canal history, and about the wildlife that still squeezes into the few available green spaces left.<\/p>\n

This video from the Lake Union Virtual Museum<\/a> is a great overview of what Seattle\u2019s houseboats mean in terms of Seattle\u2019s history, and how they contribute to the character of Lake Union as it is today.<\/p>\n