Visit to Fremont and Ballard Locks

Our trip today was to Ballard Locks... Its an enormous construction that allows ships to pass from salty water to fresh water in no time. Its free to see the Locks work so we could see how a couple of ships went trough. It was like the Panama Canal but in a smaller scale.

Among other things, the Locks are useful to protect an endangered animal... The salmon!! Salmons need to lay their eggs in fresh water so they need to swim up the current of rivers into their spawning places. The locks help them get upstream easily, so a lot more salmons can be born.

It was an interesting sight.

Unfortunately for certain circumpstances I was 't able to go to Fremont with the group... They say the troll is awesome and really big. 

There are some really amazing things in Seattle... I hope I can go to the troll before I leave to Mexico!