Sahsima Wrack
Sahsima showing another face, crouched among the bladder wrack.
These images taken a bit after dawn looking E and SE toward Puget Sound with the Olympic Mountains hiding off to the left and Trial Island beyond the rocks in the background.
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Map link here (can take some time to load).
Canon EOS 5Dii, Nikkor-N Auto 24mm/f-2.8, ISO100, f16, 2 seconds (top) and 1 second (bottom).
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burnt embers 
Wonderful atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest. The subdued colors work perfect for this mood.
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Two lovely images – wish I lived near a rocky coast like this!
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I am pretty lucky in my surroundings. Thanks for your comment 🙂
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Where’s the love button?! You are still on a roll my friend, just beautiful!
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Hi Karen – thanks so much. I think you found that button with your comment 🙂
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Beautiful. I love all the golden tones. That piece of driftwood in the second image is a wonderful capture. I love the little bits of detritus/beauty that wash up on shore.
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Hi Ryan – thank you. The edge of the sea is a very interesting place – a connection to lands afar. This general area, though probably not these inner shorelines, are seeing the first of the Japanese tsunami debris. It is going to be very strange seeing that stuff washing in and knowing about all the lives lost and ruined. It must have been even stranger 200 years ago when things would wash ashore in this part of the world from the Asian coasts. Strange, but useful. One of the principle sources of iron for Northwest Coast first nations was from Asian shipwrecks washing ashore.
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Indeed. What an interesting fact. I have a couple of net floats around here, somewhere. I’m told they came from across the sea at one time.
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The delicate early morning light is very well captured in these two beautiful shots. Worth getting up at dawn for!
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Thanks Valerie – well, its the only time of day that I can get these kinds of shots out there, so I have little choice. Since the cat got me out of bed before dawn both mornings on the weekend, I took advantage of being up and having nice weather. In many ways I would prefer to have slept another hour, or two.
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Ahhh the sea…I can smell it from here. I miss the ocean!
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When I was away from it, I really missed the ocean. I have been lucky enough to work on the ocean edges quite often, “fooling around in boats” for pay. When I was working in London for a few years I really missed the littoral zone and all the work I had done there. Fortunately I found my way back into it on my return and still get out there from time to time. But I live so close now, it does not matter as much that i work in a cube-farm most of the time. Bladder wrack or Fucus (the brown seaweed in the foreground) is so essentially coastal that it had to appear in a photo sometime.
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