These photos are from our exploration of the western and northern coasts of the Olympic Peninsula in late September, 2025.
Nancy wrote about this part of the trip here, here, and here.
Color and light along an Olympic Peninsula coastal trail
Hydrangea in the wild
Roots growing around a nurse tree
There were many trees with burls in this forest — a study in how wounds heal
The “Tree of Life” at Kalaloch Beach. Its support is collapsing; yet it persists.
The Olympic coast, near Ruby Beach
Natural shoreline sculpture
For comparison, Chillida’s El Peine del Viento (The Comb of the WInd) in San Sebastián
Ruby Beach, Washington
Cape Flattery, the northwestern-most point of the contiguous United States
Cape Flattery shoreline
Cape Flattery shoreline
Tenacious life at Cape Flattery
An oyster-eater at Cape Flattery
The lighthouse at Cape Flattery
We were greeted at our cabin on the northern Olympic shore by this Kingfisher at sunset
The western point of our cove in the morning sunlight: Shipwreck Point
We spent many hours taking in the sights right outside our front door
An eagle with its breakfast cormorant, watching me watching it
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