The ferry dock was a couple of miles from downtown and with only a little more than an hour there, we only had a chance to walk around the nearby marina. The sea anemones were huge – much bigger than what we have seen in Washington. But then Alaskan’s would probably tell you that is true about everything in their state.
I’ve always loved going to the ocean but now I find that tempered a bit with the recurring images of the tsunami that rolled over the Japanese coast this spring. As I stood on the rocks and watched waves rushing in, I imagined what it would be like if they just kept coming and did not retreat. Most of the time I managed to subdue that image in my brain and enjoyed the waves and the sand and the rocks and the birds and tide pools.
Gooseneck Barnacles
Sea Anemones
Sea stars and mussels
Dungeness Crab shell
Strange colors in that deep dark spruce forest on the way to the beach
Waldport Green Bikes
Wreck of the Iredale
Fort Stevens near the mouth of the Columbia. That’s Washington across the way.
Ken got to ‘go fly a kite’
Another kind of kite flying that we did not try
Brown Pelicans
Caspian Terns – maybe some of those from the colony that collapsed due to pressure from eagles and gulls on Sand Island.
My Everyday Photos 