Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #115 Thirsty Piranha – Seabeck WA

Thirsty Piranha

Would you have a piranha as a pet?

During covid times, Wendy and Carl had a lot of time to kill so they decided to build a tiki bar behind their home in Seaback WA. Seabeck in located out on the Peninsula here in the Pacific Northwest and is about an hour and a half drive from Seattle. You need to travel on a dirt road through the woods to get to The Thirsty Piranha and I have to be honest is kind of creepy going through at night. It’s really dark out there! But once you get to Wendy and Carl’s home you start seeing the multicolored lights of the Thirsty Piranha. There are plenty of windows which would normally be frowned upon for a tiki bar but here, it works! You feel like your outside with nature and you don’t have to be worry about getting eaten by a bear, but inside, you have to watch out for the piranhas!

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Seattle Sunset Tiki Cruise 5/18/24 by Sean Heath

Seattle Sunset Tiki Cruise 5/18/24 by Sean Heath

Dedicated readers, Tiki with Ray has foolishly left his computer out and yours truly cracked his password (12345 same as on my luggage) and taken the helm of the ship. Let us hope it doesn’t capsize as I do donuts and recreate scenes from Speed 2, or possibly, the Titanic.  Either way we have rocky shoals ahead.  

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #113 Dr. Bones, Apothecary – Tacoma WA

Dr. Bones, Apothecary

When Ashley Morgan, aka Sleepy Siren Treasure Co. ins’t sculpting mugs shaped like dead oceanographers, she’s spending time with husband Cliff deep down inside their basement bar. It’s part nautical, part pirate and part tiki, all things that Ashley and Cliff love. The name of their bar is called Dr. Bones, Apothecary…
NOT Dr. Bones’ Apothecary!

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Tiki VIP #51 Ashley Morgan – Sleepy Siren Treasure Co.

Ashley Morgan - Sleepy Siren Treasure Co.

Q: What does Jacques Cousteau and Ashley Morgan have in common?

A: They both love the sea AND Ashley Morgan created a mug in honor of Jacques called Jacques Tu’Slo which is a skull!  Ashley’s style blends pirate, the sea, tiki and a little bit of creepy for good measure! Sleepy Siren Treasure Co. is located up here in the Pacific Northwest in Tacoma and I’m excited to see what she comes up with next! Here is Ashley’s story…

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #106 The Lucky Star Tiki Bar – Whidbey Island WA

Imagine being in the army and you’re on base. Imagine a tiki bar on this base. Think of the makeshift tiki bar on the TV show M.A.S.H. This is what Will Locksmith Hawkins created in the basement of his home and it’s so cool. I’ve been to many tiki bars but I’ve never seen anything like this!

Oh, did I forget to mention there’s an actually a wing from an airplane hanging about the bar?

 

 

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #104 The Midwatch Bar – Duval WA

If you ever served in the Navy and was out to sea, you probably have spent some time being on watch. Midwatch is the time between midnight to 4:00 AM and this is how Mike met his now wife Shannon and Midwatch is the name of their home tiki bar. I’d say it’s fitting! Here’s a little bit more of how Mike met Shannon and how their home tiki bar came together, Ships Ahoy!!

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #102 Kanaloa’s Demise – Kent WA

Kanaloa is a god symbolized by the squid or the octopus…

Situated in Chris and Cathy’s backyard is Kanaloa’s Demise. The theme of their bar is all things octopus. You will find, pantings,  lamps and other amphoral related to the might sea dweller, the octopus. Want to learn more about octopuses, or should I say octopi? Want to learn more about how this incredible nautical theme bar came to be? Keep reading…

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Tiki VIP #49 Lowtiki – Tiki Mug Artist from The Pacific NW

I’m always excited to see new ideas when it comes to tiki, especially tiki mugs. Mugs from Lowtiki have a distinct style pulling from the spooky, the tropical and the beautiful. Sam, is the woman behind these incredible mugs and she’s from the Pacific North West just like me and when you live in a city that rains nine months out of the years, Sam’s mugs brighten the day! Here’s is Sam’s story…
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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #90 Liki Tiki – Everett WA

The Liki Tiki is in the attic of Lin Cooper’s garage, well it’s more of crawl space but you can fully stand up in it. The only way to get up to this attic or should I say “Liki Tiki” is by a small ladder.

All the dark wood and sharp angles of the garage’s roof are the perfect bones for a tiki bar to be built in, all you got to do is get an actual bar up there! This is exactly what Lin did. After lugging a bar up the small ladder, he added some bamboo furniture and lighting. If there’s anything that you can take away from Lin’s tiki bar, is that you can make anything into a tiki bar, you just need to think outside of the box, or should I say garage?

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #87 The Hatches – Seattle WA

Batten Down The Hatches!

Welcome to The Hatches. It’s Ken Herold’s home tiki bar located in the Seattle neighborhood of Leschi, which is only a couple minutes away from my home, so I didn’t have to travel far to visit this awesome bar. The Hatches combines elements of tiki and nautical, and Ken did a great job of mixing the two together. Speaking of mixing, Ken can make a perfect Mai Tai and a Three Dot And A Dash! Here is Ken’s story on how The Hatches came to be …

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