Monday 24th September

We began the day by taking the monorail downtown and then walking along 5th Avenue to Seattle Central Library.

The inside is ultra modern, airey and light and houses over 400 computer terminals for use by the public as well as 1.4 million books and an automated book sorting system. It was fairly busy this morning with nearly all the computer terminals being used.

We walked down to the quayside and enjoyed the views of the city from there.

We took an hour long harbour cruise of the sights from the water.

The salmon are running at present so that is bringing many seals into Elliot Bay.

Later in the afternoon we explored the Seattle Aquarium which has exhibits of fish, mammals and birds.
www.seattleaquarium.org

After dinner we took a night ride up the Space Needle to see the city lit up in the dark.