I had a few hours to burn today. It wasn’t raining in the 40s, and the winds were not storm-level. So, a beach adventure seemed about right.
It’s also hitting me that I will not be here in a few more weeks, and I probably will never visit these beaches again. I have the need to do it all again, for that one last time.
I went to the beach along Admiralty Bay, which is on the Salish Sea. It falls under Fort Casey State Park and sits between the water and Crocket Lake, next to the Coupeville Ferry Dock. (See here for a map)
I parked in the lot, at the end, where you can overlook the Salish Sea. And the ferry coming in from Port Townsend.
Slipping into the ferry dock.
I have been to this area so many times, and never quite noticed that there is an old paved road out there. In the coastal scrub area. You can’t really see it from the highway or the parking lot.
To the left, along the bay, is an old pier, which I have sat near many times but never walked out to.
It is easy to get there, walk along the bank above the water. It’s mostly rocks and easy to walk on.
Where the paved road ends. It’s all straight in a line here.
It slowly is rotting into the Earth.
Keystone Spit’s Pigeon Guillemots, with a random Seagull hanging out. I thought it intresting how many were there today, and that they have their spring feathers showing, not their winter plumage. They breed here, and raise their young on the old pier.
An old tree, washed down a river, and tumbled through the Salish.
The trees hold onto their rocks for a long time.
It’s fascinating to study the tree’s lines, that look like topo lines.
An old tree, long sitting above the high tide line, that has slowly filled in, supporting an ecosystem on it, and caves for small animals to hide in.
There is a lot to see if we walk slowly, and stop often.
~Sarah