{"id":958,"date":"2011-09-07T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T15:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/?p=958"},"modified":"2011-09-07T15:39:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T15:39:38","slug":"south-end-eco-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"south end eco-tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH END ECO-TOURISM<\/p>\n<p>No doubt all you Eco-Adventurers have got your spandex in a bunch salivating over Camano\u2019s newest zipline \u2018canopy tour\u2019 at Kristofferson\u2019s farm across from the Plaza Grocery.\u00a0 I know, you can\u2019t wait for the aerial clothesline through the alders and out over a spectacular vista of Camaloch\u2019s suburbs, the Plaza stripmall and the scenic highway to the South End.<br \/>\nBut if you think that is the final word on Aerial Adventure, hold onto your zip harness.\u00a0 The Tyee Treetop Tours are opening this month too.\u00a0 One quarter mile of death defying logging cables strung\u00a0 over killer nettle forests, the store\u2019s old wrecking yard, monster blackberry jungles and a pond filled with west nile mosquitoes bred in car battery water\u00a0 that make piranhas look as dangerous as guppies.\u00a0 This is no Thrill or Spill, this is South End history viewed from an eagle\u2019s perspective and moving at 90 mph.\u00a0 You sign our ironclad waiver of Non-Responsibility and before the ink dries, you\u2019re rocketing above discarded appliances, rusting 1930\u2019s automobiles, vintage logging equipment, all with a spectacular view of Tyee Store and the adjoining Art Gallery, both untouched and unimproved since they designed and built by the now famous firm of Frank Lloyd Wrong, pre-strip mall purveyors of the early pole building school of architectural design.<br \/>\nTyee Treetop Tours is a virtual time machine on a cable.\u00a0 Bring the kids &#8212; we\u2019re Family Friendly.\u00a0 Bring an appetite &#8212; the Tyee Rotisserie Dogs are tailor made for the courageous.\u00a0 Bring a Bible &#8212; prayers never hurt.\u00a0 And they\u2019re far more potent than a liability attorney.<br \/>\nTyee Treetop Tours start at the ridiculously low price of $75 dollars per adult and half price for kids.\u00a0 We also offer our unique Senior Citizen Discount for you Old Timers looking for that last big thrill.\u00a0 No safety harness, no admission fee.\u00a0 Just sign the waiver and skip the small print.<br \/>\nSo come down for the fun, come for the adventure or come for an education you won\u2019t find at the community college.\u00a0 Or come for all that and more!\u00a0 Tyee Treetop Tours:\u00a0 History at 90 mph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH END ECO-TOURISM No doubt all you Eco-Adventurers have got your spandex in a bunch salivating over Camano\u2019s newest zipline \u2018canopy tour\u2019 at Kristofferson\u2019s farm across from the Plaza Grocery.\u00a0 I know, you can\u2019t wait for the aerial clothesline through the alders and out over a spectacular vista of Camaloch\u2019s suburbs, the Plaza stripmall and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-and-ravings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}