These are both taken with telephoto lenses, so you get some of the foreshortening effect. The top image is from Dungeness Spit near Sequim, Washington. You can walk 8 miles along the spit out to the lighthouse there. You need to be aware of the tides, though, or you may end up walking on the driftwood … a lot more difficult going than walking the beach. The Point Wilson lighthouse is on the grounds of Fort Worden State Park, right at the point where the Strait of Juan de Fuca meets Puget Sound.
A quarter mile walk up an abandoned road takes you to the summit of Blue Mountain and a panorama of spectacular views. This is the view to the east, showing Mt Baker in the distance and Admiralty inlet in the middle of the image … this is where the Strait of Juan de Fuca meets Puget Sound (also known as the Salish Sea). What looks like an island in the right middle foreground is actually the north end of the Quimper Peninsula … location of my home town Port Townsend.
Note: while researching the course of the lower Gray Wolf River, I noticed that Green Mountain is west of Deer Park and the road above Deer Park climbs Blue Mountain. My mistake … I have called it Green Mt for years. Oops.
Port Townsend (where I live) is at the northeast corner of the Olympic Peninsula where the Strait of Juan de Fuca meets Puget Sound… and at the top of what is referred to as the Admiralty Inlet area.
This image shows the area where the two bodies of water meet. In the distance is Whidbey Island and above it Mt Baker, the northern-most of the stratovolcanoes of the Washington Cascades. Tidal currents in the area can reach 6 knots. (Canoes and kayaks beware!)
These are a couple images that I took from a trip across to Victoria from Port Angeles on the Coho ferry. The top one is looking east to Mt Baker and the one below is looking south to the Olympic Mountains … the area just south of Port Angeles in the Hurricane Ridge area.
It is always a pleasure when the sky is cloud free enough for Mt Baker to the visible from Port Townsend. Sometimes a layer of cloud will hide a section, as it does here, adding visual interest.