This is a pretty good example of typical Olympic Coast weather. Lots of clouds blowing in off the Pacific.
It can be disappointing to those looking for a sunny day at the beach. You can get those, of course … but this is more typical. Sun breaks can happen and then leave again. And the result of this weather is the temperate rain forests of the Bogachiel, Hoh, Queets, and Quinault rivers.
I was spending some time at Kalaloch at the coast in the Olympic National Park. The weather was pretty good, we just had a few showers. Didn’t get a good sunset photo, but got this before the clouds closed in. Stay tuned for some additional posts from the trip …
I walked onto the ferry in Port Townsend and rode over to Whidbey Island (the Coupleville dock). On the island, you get off and are right next to Fort Casey State Park. Walking along the beach, I found this nice collection of pebbles that someone had assembled. A temporary art installation.
When I want to try out a ‘new’ film camera, the first thing I do is run a roll of film through it as fast as I can. Usually, I spend an hour or so down on the waterfront, shoot the roll and drop it in the mail on the way home. Lately, I tried out a Pentax 645N. This is a fairly large camera that shoots 120 film (this was Kodak Portra 400). I really enjoyed it, but found a streak on the negative (still trying to track down if it was a light leak, a scratch or an issue with the scanner at the lab). The nice thing about larger size film is you can crop a bunch off and still have decent quality… here, I cut off the left third of the image to eliminate the streak.
These were taken from the boat launch and campground area of Fort Flagler State Park on the north end of Marrowstone Island. The top photo shows the northeast corner of the Olympic Mountains including Mt Constance (the tallest pointy one) … the more rounded summit that looks higher, but is only closer, is Mt Townsend. In the foreground distance is a crane loading (or unloading) munitions from a Navy ship at the Naval Magazine on Indian Island. Below shows the northeast Olympics running west towards Port Angeles. The water in both images is the mouth of Kilisut Harbor off of Port Townsend Bay.
