LETTER TO THE editor in Thursday’s PDN:
I recently learned that the huge oil drilling rig that is parked in full view of anyone driving near Port Angeles Harbor is here to stay for a while (“Giant Oil Rig Probably Will Stick Around,” PDN, May 5).
This depressed economic climate clamors for some creative solutions, and that ugly rig just demands a colorful makeover.
How about we see if Shell will moderate its rigid stance of using it just for oil drilling and allow us to have it as a water slide for the summer?
And when the next rig arrives, perhaps we could set them up close enough to run zip-lines between the two of them so folks could have some more fun?
Even having tours of the oil rig would offer a tourist attraction.
When is the last time you were on one? Or even curious about what they are like?
Water taxis would make money taking folks out to the slide and zip-line or tours, concession people could set up hotdog stands and liquid refreshments nearby, and tourists would flock here from British Columbia and points eastward for a never-to-be-experienced-again, once-in-a-lifetime, oil-rig summer fun trip.
Hotels would have no-vacancy signs out because lots of other fun things would come from the energy of having a purpose in our harbor at long last.
Anyone with other ideas is welcome to submit them [to letters@peninsuladailynews.com. Or register a comment in the Reader Comments, below.]
I’m not wedded to these but wanted to get people thinking instead of complaining.
Sandy Banks,
Sequim
