Seven Jets, Millions of Fans, and a Malcontent
Seattle’s annual Seafair is a city-wide hootenanny celebrating all things maritime. The summer festival comprises eight-weeks of neighborhood events which culminate in the annual Torchlight Parade—a nighttime extravaganza that draws upward of three-hundred-thousand spectators—and the famed Lake Washington hydroplane races. By sea and by land, Seafair revelers demonstrate en masse the effects a few weeks of sunshine can have on a populace habituated to rain. Yet for all Seafair’s nautical and terrestrial delights, the party wouldn’t be complete without the Blue Angels flashing across the clear(ish) skies of the Puget Sound August.