Katrina's Travels

More photos from Point No Point on November 16

I'll start with the sparrowy birds. This is a Spotted Towhee.



( More towhee and sparrow photos )


I saw two hummingbirds while I was in Washington. The first one was buzzing around high up in the trees at my friend's house in the rain. I didn't even come close to seeing it well enough to identify. This Anna's Hummingbird was the second one. It was sitting in a place where I was looking almost directly into the sun, so the photos didn't come out all that well and I had to adjust them quite a bit to show the colors at all.



( Another hummingbird photo )

I saw some chickadees and nuthatches in the woods, but most of the birds I saw where on the water.

There were a lot of grebes, almost all Horned Grebes.



( More grebes )


There were also ducks, loons, and guillemots. ( Read more... )

I saw two mammals at Point No Point. One was this seal, which I think is a Harbor Seal. The other was a huge sea lion. I didn't get a photo of the sea lion and I'm not sure which species it was but it whichever it was, it was a really big one. I talked to a man on the beach who told me he'd seen a large whale the previous day but I didn't see any whales.

I back-tracked from Port Gamble and found the right turn to get to Point No Point. There's a long stretch of beach to walk on plus a trail that goes through a marshy meadow then up into the woods. I started out on the beach. It was about 55F, which I considered plenty warm for mid-November. I left my jacket in the car, rolled up my jeans and took off my sandals. Eventually I decided to walk in the water instead of on the sand. Other people were wearing their winter coats. I think they thought I was strange. When I talked to one of my cousins who is kind of new-agey about it later, she said I was grounding myself in the Sound. I think she made a valid point about that. I didn't think about it that way when I was doing it, but it did feel like there was more importance to it than just getting my feet wet.




This is the view from the edge of the beach near the parking lot.










( More scenery )

By the time I was done, the blue sky was gone and this is what it looked like.




By the time I got back to the car to go back to my uncle's house it was raining. That's the Pacific Northwest for you. If it isn't raining now, it will be raining soon.

Coming up next: lighthouse and beach photos.