Olympic Peninsula, Washington
2008 - 2010
A compilation of a series of visits over the last few years
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2009 |
2010 |
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Your photographer
Anise Swallowtail
Dungeness National Wildlife Reserve - 2010
The spit
Driftwood on the spit
Deer on the beach
Common loon
Cormorant on a Straits of Juan de Fuca channel marker
Western gulls
Heerman's gulls
Heerman's gulls
Heerman's gulls
Heerman's gull
Western sanderling
Western sanderling
Western sandpiper
Western sandpipers
Surf scoters
Surf scoters escorting the M/V North Star (Faroe Island flagged)
Caspian tern
Black turnstone
Harbor seal
Driftwood
Deracinated tree - note trapped rocks
Loch Ness monster wannabe
The Dungeness Schoolhouse 1893-1955
A coffee shop in the downtown shopping district
Thoughtful
Emily and Millie North (our hostess)
The big event in town
Rick with an Oregon brew
Port Townsend - looking across to Whidbey Island
Old warehouse area
View from Union Wharf
Original house and bell tower
The Bell Tower on the bluff above downtown is one of two known towers of this type in the United States. It was used from 1890 to the 1940s to call volunteer firefighters.
Historic Belmont Hotel (1885)
Reflections from Union Wharf
Post Office
County Courthouse
Point Hudson marina
Point Hudson marina
Point Hudson marina
Point Hudson marina workshops
Western gull taking flight
Beached...
Point Wilson lighthouse
Point Wilson lighthouse (1913)
Three and four point bucks mock combat
Union Wharf
We did not stop...
Departing the dock on the M/V Coho en route Victoria, BC
Port Angeles and Olympic Mountains from the ferry
U.S. Coast Guard Station Port Angeles
Olympic Mountains from the Strait of Juan de Fuca
Dungeness Lighthouse
Great Blue Heron - Dungeness Recreation Area
Our hostess Millie North
Packing up
Entrance to town
Sequim is located between Port Townsend and Port Angeles
The area is noted for its lavender farms
Home of friend (former Port Orford resident) Mille North
Emily at Millie's
Smoke tree
Sunset from Millie's deck
Salmon baking - Indian style
John Wayne Marina on Sequim Bay
Local signs in the totemic style
Local winery - home of Working Girl wines
