P.A. Ferry Terminal Improvements are On Schedule
Black Ball Ferry Line co-owner Ryan Anderson said the construction project at the ferry terminal is on schedule and most of the work should be completed later this month. Motorists will be able to drive on the area sometime in May.
Black Ball is stepping up their campaign to encourage Vancouver Island residents to visit Port Angeles. In addition to the "Get Off the Rock" slogan, there will be a promotion called the Pub Crawl to bring Victoria residents over to Port Angeles to sample the local brews.
Black Ball is stepping up their campaign to encourage Vancouver Island residents to visit Port Angeles. In addition to the "Get Off the Rock" slogan, there will be a promotion called the Pub Crawl to bring Victoria residents over to Port Angeles to sample the local brews.
posted by Tom Harper at 8:43 PM
17 Comments:
Pub crawl? You mean "R Bar" and "Steels"?
So that is what is seen as a marketable reason to try to get people from Victoria to come to Port Angeles? A pub crawl? Really?
How ridiculous.
As was said before, anyone can go to the corner of Lincoln and First Street every time the ferry arrives, and watch all those people head out of town. It isn't that people are not coming to Port Angeles, the issue is that they are not staying any longer than it takes to get out of Port Angeles!
Rumor has it that Max's favorite band, "The Nosey Halfwits", will be in town for the pub crawl.
Barhop and Next Door are downtown too. Seems like a perfectly good tourism idea. Did you have something better in mind?
Rumor also has it that Max has listed his house with a local Realtor as a "short sale"...
Anon 9:37/8:21/10:49:
Here we go again! Tom is deleting all the interesting posts!
Seriously, do you teabaggers ever have anything specific to say, or are you just one teabagger arguing with yourself?
Esp. 8:21. You are beyond annoying. Please take a Yoga class so you can at least hope of teabagging yourself someday.
I know two Canadians that spend as much time here as they can, drinking in the bars. In fact they seem to be here more than they are in Canada even though they have businesses in Victoria. They say that it's cheaper to live and drink here. Nice folks, I like them.
There's a whole country of stuff to see here in the US. It's not surprising that a large portion of ferry traffic doesn't stick around, no matter how interesting we try to be. But, we can try to do some interesting things like the pub crawl, zip lines, the gondola to the ridge, etc. and try to get a few of them to stick around for an afternoon or even overnight.
Goodbye Max!
Guess we'll never live under the beneficent rule of "Mayor Mania"!
Anon 3:08- I know insults are a lot easier to come up with than facts, but insults don't build a community.
The reality is plain for all to see. You could have a friend snap pics of the plates on the cars getting off the ferry, and then sit at the corner of Lincoln and First, and match the plates of the cars driving eastward. Or, do a survey of all the people sitting on the ferry, and see how many have ANY plans to stay in Port Angeles for any amount of time. Those types of activities generate FACTS.
Remember HarborWorks? THAT was a great example of what happens when an effort is taken on without FIRST getting the FACTS. Millions of the communitys' monies were spent on an idea that was not researched FIRST.
The supporters thought high end car dealerships were going to fall all over themselves to locate on the former Rayonier mill site in Port Angeles. After millions were spent, a study was done that determined there was NO interest by commercial developers.
Before Port Angeles embarks on yet another "great idea", perhaps some real research be done.
If Max does in fact leave, what is the troll with the hard on for Max going to do? Move to Bhutan?
Max is busy organizing "Flipper Over 2" in Bhutan. Give him a break!
Stop this endless Mania baiting!
The Lonely Planet travel guide indicates "Tourism in Bhutan is also unique. Visitors famously have to pay a minimum of US$200 per day, making it one of the world’s most expensive countries to visit, but this fee is all-inclusive, you don’t have to travel in a group and you can arrange your own itinerary. What you won’t find in Bhutan is backpacker-style independent travel. This is Nepal for the jet set."
Someone in this town has enough to travel to the happiest place on earth. Hopefully enough to afford a mortgage there and live happily ever after.
Maybe Max and his wife can no longer afford the high city utility rates and taxes, and he and his wife plan to just rent a place from now on?
There are many reasons why people choose to put their homes up for sale.
And, in a world where criminals read obituaries and burglarize homes when bereaved survivors will be away at the funeral, it is foolhardy from a security standpoint to broadcast that you will be traveling out of the country.
It will be very difficult for Max to move to Bhutan, despite his fondest dreams of doing so. Our local Border Patrol agents would wince at the nature of Bhutan's immigration policies. According to Wikipedia "Under the latest Immigration Act of 2007, department-level immigration officers were given a mandate, and left wide discretion, to enter private premises; examine documents, persons, and things; seize items; and arrest persons. These officers are immunized under the 2007 Act for all wrongful acts and omissions committed in good faith in the discharge of their duty.Bhutanese immigration policy, as reflected in its citizenship laws, can be described as highly assimilatory, requiring familiarity with the dominant Ngalop culture and allegiance to the Ngalop King of Bhutan. Its broader citizenship policy toward both immigrants and citizens alike can also be described as assimilatory, and on its face, a tool against dissent."
Such is the happiest place on earth.
Max is havin' a Bhuty Call!
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