Mike McQuaide has this story in the Seattle Times:
[MIKE MCQUAIDE / SEATTLE TIMES photo: Alexis Ogden, of Marysville, works a puzzle on sunny Jetty Island.]It’s a blindingly bright day under skies that couldn’t be more blue and that haven’t hosted anything resembling a cloud in days. And as she sinks deeper and deeper into the sandy mud flats — first to her ankles, then to her shins, then to her knees and above — Amanda Bailey, of Bothell, shares her favorite pastimes from a lifetime of summers spent hanging out here at Jetty Island.
"A long time ago we would make forts and pretend we were survivors on a desert island," says the personable 13-year-old who’s here today on the summeriest of summer days with a passel of friends.
