Street Ends: Lake Washington - Laurelhurst

Dear Diary,

We're moving way south now, and back to October 14, the only time I've visited the next six street ends.  The first four of those face more or less east, near as I can tell onto Lake Washington, and are this page's topic.

51st Ave NE Street End

Photo 1 - The street that ends

Photo 2 - The land the city appears to claim

Photo 3 - A view over water

NE 43rd St Street End

Photo 1

Alternative photo 1

This would be pretty Machiavellian.  "Sure, we'll build a staircase to your private beach.  Oh, but oops, that makes your private beach public property."  I hope that isn't how it happened.

Photo 2

There's a clearing at the bottom of the stair, then the actual beach.  This shows the clearing.

Photo 3

NE 33rd St Street End

Into each page some rain must fall.

Photo 1

Photo 2, sort of

There are supposedly four street ends in what appears to be a rather wealthy peninsula off Laurelhurst, called Webster Point.  Two are open to the public.  One seems to me to be blatant chicanery on the city's part.  And then there's this one.

NE 31st St Street End

There are two of these; they're the two in Webster Point that are open.  This is the eastern one.

Photo 1

Photo 2

Photo 3

And that's four.

Well, dear Diary, I did warn you that these pages would probably not interest anyone who didn't like the shore.  I'm afraid six more are coming.