Getting the opportunity to leave the city and witness the power of nature in all of its time stopping beauty and awe, is something I rarely get the chance to do. My friends invited me to travel with them on a one night camping foray into the wilderness.
Post christmas coldness and weather, didnt seem to even enter my mind (until about 3am when I woke up with a serious cramp in my legs and didnt get back to sleep until about 45 minutes before the alarm went off), ah but those views.. Those scenes that every eye should see. Those colors and sounds and smells of roaring, tumultuous ocean, birds, deer and all the animals I saw but cannot name, they are enriching, and puts context on the soul.
Of course, I took some pictures.
Washington Ferries the “Walla Walla” (Walla Walla is a city named after the Native American tribe, it’s located south east Washington State). Jigsaw Puzzles are left on tables by crew for passengers on the 40 minute commute from Edmonds to Kingston.
Ozette Loop trail is a rainforest and part the Olympic National Park. It is located at the most western tip of the continental United States.
Ozette Island in the distance, on the beach, simply named The Pacific NW Trail.
Sea Stacks stand hard against ever raging seas.
The serenity of the beachfront wooded area is in stark contrast to what it fronts, the Pacific Ocean.
The serenity of the beachfront wooded area is in stark contrast to what it fronts, the Pacific Ocean.
The tumultuous Pacific Ocean barrages the coastline constantly, and the continuous growth of the American tectonic plate, collide with epic proportions, as evidenced by a prehistoric landscape of awesome dimensions. Geographic meta cycles are amazingly visual here, and what happens in minutia on the beach happens in magnitude over the Earth’s history. Ancient trees cave and fall onto the beach in a slow march of submission to the march of time.
Alien life forms! Ocean weed, sea pods otherwise growing near the land, take root in the mineral rich sand. A storm and high tide ripped them from their beds and tossed them onto the beach in a sacrificial gesture to enrich the land for the trees to grow, and in time the trees will fall, and feed the ocean, and so fits into the magnificent cycle of unmolested natural life.
Alien life forms! Ocean weed, sea pods otherwise growing near the land, take root in the mineral rich sand. A storm and high tide ripped them from their beds and tossed them onto the beach in a sacrificial gesture to enrich the land for the trees to grow, and in time the trees will fall, and feed the ocean, and so fits into the magnificent cycle of unmolested natural life.
Natures wonders. The oceans tides gorge on the landscapes, throwing monstrous waves during high tides and storms, churning up the local areas, belching up seaweeds into grassy areas mixed with epic tree trunk remains and pebbles matted in a rich tapestry of confusing elements randomly mixed together where ancient land meets ancient ocean.
Natures wonders. The oceans tides gorge on the landscapes, throwing monstrous waves during high tides and storms, churning up the local areas, belching up seaweeds into grassy areas mixed with epic tree trunk remains and pebbles matted in a rich tapestry of confusing elements randomly mixed together where ancient land meets ancient ocean.
Natures wonders. The oceans tides gorge on the landscapes, throwing monstrous waves during high tides and storms, churning up the local areas, belching up seaweeds into grassy areas mixed with epic tree trunk remains and pebbles matted in a rich tapestry of confusing elements randomly mixed together where ancient land meets ancient ocean.
From Ozette loop trail, leads to the beach near Cape Alava just south of the Ozette Indian Reservation. It is the most western point of the continental United States.
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