A lot of stinky zebra mussels down there nowadays. Also my dad's Higgins speedboat and at least two "Ladybug" sailing dinghies designed and hand built by the legendary cabinetmaker Evert Sodergren.
Tons of poorly secured outboard motors rest in the slowly solidifying muck of the lake bottom. Perhaps future generations will salvage them and marvel at the audacity of a time when a kid with a paper route could save up his nickels and dimes and purchase a screamingly loud 15 horse mercury outboard engine and attach it to a floating plywood box and skim the lake at speeds in excess of sixty miles an hour...
my favorite was the father and son team who were mining the old-growth Douglas Fir off the bottom down near Renton and got busted when they hooked onto a sewer line and broke it.
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
Back in the late 1990's, I did several dives on a PBM-5 Martin Mariner lying upside down in the mud off the Boeing Renton facility. It was well preserved. I penetrated the cockpit on one dive. Toggle switches on the control panels still had a 'click' in them.
The only armament still onboard was a .30 caliber tail gun. (I burrowed my arm into the mud up to my armpit and wrapped my hand around the barrel.)
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