David, Theo & Ruby Take Us To Anderson Island

A couple days ago we blogged about a Texas Native Who Disliked Fort Worth So Much They Escaped Back To Washington.

In that blogging we mentioned that the former Fort Worth Texas native was moving back to the Anderson Island location in Washington.

I also mentioned that I had no memory of having been on Anderson Island, or its exact location, though I knew that island to be located in the south end of Puget Sound.

David, Theo and Ruby, after reading that particular blog post, then directed their mom, my little sister, Michele, to tell me precisely where Anderson Island is located...

We just read your most recent post   Anderson Island is what started us on our search for a vacation home! We stayed at a friend’s out there years ago and LOVED it. We came close to buying a tiny home out there very near Amsterdam Bay, which is fantastic. Downsides of Anderson Island: ferry access only, from Steilacoom, and there is saltwater incursion into the wells on parts of the island. There are two freshwater lakes that people live on, one with a super cool swimming hole. There is one store. It’s a lovely place. We can take you out there if you ever come visit. Anderson Island is right across from McNeil Island, home of the prison. The boat that goes there uses the same dock. It’s not far from the southern tip of Harstine Island, as the crow flies.

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On the screen capped map above that is Hartstene Island being the island on the far left. Anderson Island is the lower island in the middle. The McNeil Island Tacoma version of the Alcatraz prison is the island directly above Anderson Island.

And that green point you see at the upper right is Point Defiance Park in Tacoma. That line you see crossing water below Point Defiance Park is Highway 16 crossing the Tacoma Narrows via two suspension bridges, on the way to Gig Harbor, Bremerton, and the Olympic Peninsula.

To get to Hartstene Island David, Theo and Ruby have their parental units drive past Olympia, at the south end of Puget Sound, or take what I would think would be the longer route, across the Tacoma Narrows.

I wonder if David, Theo and Ruby have been trying to convince their parental units that maybe buying a boat might be the more efficient way to get to their new cabin on Hartstene Island. I suspect that would not be a good idea, what with having to deal with swift moving tides and other water navigation challenges.

This blog post has already gone long, before getting to what I thought I was going to get to prior to beginning to type, that being making a comment or two about things we see on this map which one can never see in Fort Worth, Texas, that town that that former native escaped from to return to Washington.

Things like real islands and bridges built across real water in less than four years, bridges which are actual real feats of difficult engineering. We will save elaborating on that, and more, for later...