Check out the "Waiting Room" located next to where the ferry docks.  Here you will find: videos, visitor's guides and brochures to begin planning your activities in the Islands, an ATM, pay phones, restrooms, Wave2Go ticket machines, vending machines, an arcade game, a "Marine Wildlife of Puget Sound" display depicting over 40 species of marine wildlife and the M.V. Tillikum's Throttle Board - a hands-on display for kids set up by engine room employees.  The Cheesecake Café provides food service at various times depending on the season and a snack shack located next to the ferry lanes is open daily from 7:15 A.M.-3:15 P.M.  Vending machines are available on board all Washington State Ferries.  Here are some other ideas for while you wait for the ferry:

- Learn about your future at the Palm Reader just up the road from the ferry lanes

- Bring a picnic and enjoy it on one of several picnic tables

- Take a walk along the beach

- Play catch or fetch with your kids or dog

- Read the interpretive signage about Ship Harbor

- Marvel at beautiful Mt. Baker on a clear day

- Shop at San Juan Souvenir in the "Waiting Room"

- Read a book, magazine or newspaper (several newspapers are available to purchase at the terminal, next to the restrooms and "Waiting Room")

- Take a nap

- Work, if you must, utilizing Boingo Wi-Fi service