6.05.2011

feet [the olympic peninsula]

Memorial Day!
These pics are from the Cape Alava trail (or lake Ozette loop)--western most point in the contiguous U.S., turns out.

lean-to shelters on the beach:

i was going for this:

driftwood

the first time we saw a sea lion right on the beach it was so far inland and kinda ugly so i thought it was dead, and i was afraid to look right at it when we passed cause i thought it would be gross. this one looked cuter = alive. (the ugly one was alive too, or it was a zombie sea lion)

sea weeds

rainforest

Ozette indian village memorial on the Makah reservation (as in, there was once an indian whaling village. it was buried in a mud slide hundreds of years ago. in the seventies it was found and pillaged. they covered it back up. now you can go to this hut that houses a memorial.)

La Push reservation beaches (some of you might know this as the place where the indians live that are really werewolves and keep the vampires away. but it's really just a nice beach owned by nice indians).

4 comments:

ken said...

I can't believe I've still never been out there. Fantastic pictures.

a. said...

la push is la lovely. missing!

Anonymous said...

V. here...yOU live in such a lovely place with so much to enjoy... Who gets to walk by a sea lion lounging on a human beach. That La Push tribe staked its claim to some beautiful beaches. Nice choice.

Anonymous said...

Somebody got a fisheye ... mmm --wc