Fast Ferry Planned For Lake Chelan

Sun., Feb. 8, 1998

By Susan English susane@spokesman.com

Those too impatient or time-pressed to take the slow boat up Lake Chelan can buy just the ticket this summer. The Lake Chelan Boat Co. will operate a 50-mile-per-hour passenger ferry on the lake between Chelan, Stehekin and the North Cascades National Park, June through September.

The boat will make both early morning and afternoon runs up the lake. Seating capacity will be 49 passengers, so reservations are advised (although they are not yet being taken). For information about the schedule, write Lake Chelan Boat Co., PO Box 186, Chelan, WA 98816.

Plan your art viewing

Bargain-conscious art lovers will want to head for the Seattle Asian Art Museum on the first Saturday of the month. The museum is waiving the admission fee that day.

The museum’s holdings in Asian art rank in the top 10 outside Asia, and its Japanese collection is one of the top five in the U.S.

The museum is open Tuesdays through Sundays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $6, $4 for seniors and students, free on the first Thursday and first Saturday of the month and free to seniors on the first Friday of each month. For a schedule of activities at the museum, call (206) 654-3100.

Look around and dream

The 54th annual Seattle Home Show boasts nearly 600 displays of home and garden products as well as fully furnished and landscaped model homes.

The extravaganza opens Saturday and runs through Feb. 22 in the Kingdome and Kingdome parking lot.

Admission to the event includes seminars on home improvement. The event runs Saturdays 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sundays 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Monday 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m., Tuesday-Thursday noon-8:30 p.m. and Friday noon-9:30 p.m.

Parking is free at the Kingdome only for those with at least 4 people in the vehicle.

Admission to the show is $7, $4 for seniors, $3 for children.

Spring in the desert

For bicyclists, Zion National Park in Utah offers rolling and flat terrain. And in May, conditions are just about perfect.

WomanTours has organized an eight-day inn-to-inn bicycle tour through Zion, Bryce Canyon and Cedar Breaks National Monument May 23-30. It’s an ideal tour for novice cyclists, although some level of fitness is required, since the tour covers about 225 miles in the eight days.

The tour is, of course, limited to women; for information, contact WomanTours at (800) 247-1444 or e-mail womantours@aol.com.

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