{"id":16411,"date":"2013-07-01T18:24:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T18:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thewildbeat.com\/?p=16411"},"modified":"2020-08-02T22:59:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T22:59:31","slug":"faces-of-the-ballard-fish-ladde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=16411","title":{"rendered":"Faces of the 18th Weir"},"content":{"rendered":"

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They sit suspended at the 18th weir, these scaled faces in the sockeye crowd. It’s the window to their water world, the portal from ocean to stream to lake, where their gills remember the taste of fresh after years in the salty sea — and where they lead — at least in part — by magnetic memories<\/a> of the gravel beds where they were born.<\/p>\n

\"Ballard<\/p>\n

They’re surging forward across the solstice and into summer … marking the way for the Chinook who will follow them … to their own redds, carved among river rocks. Then, they’ll leave their battered and starved bodies, life extinguished, as they stamp eternal existence through their eggs and into their young.<\/p>\n

:: My photo tribute to the sockeye salmon passing by the thousands through the Ballard Locks fish ladder — with a few faces of their Chinook brethren, who soon will come.<\/i><\/p>\n

Related salmon posts: Climbing the Salmon Ladder to Success<\/a> \u2022 Steelhead Poetry on the 18th Weir<\/a> \u2022 Steelhead Youth<\/a> \u2022 Something Spawning This Way Comes<\/a><\/p>\n

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