This is looking north along the beach from the Kalaloch Lodge property in Olympic National Park. It’s a very popular spot, year round. I love to go and walk the beach and listen to the waves rolling in.
Beach Walk
Windy Day at the Beach
These two images are taken just a few minutes apart. The top one from the top of the bank at Kalaloch, just as I was heading down to the beach. The one below was taken from the beach looking across the water to see the waves being blown by the wind. Not much changing of the color tones in post-processing… just a difference in the shooting angle and a little closer to sunset. Kalaloch is one of the Olympic National Park beaches.
Cloudscape
I have shown photos of this pond before, but the clouds are always different. This day they were particularly dramatic.
Beach Clouds
An ocean beach is a great place to see clouds. This is the Pacific Ocean from Kalaloch. A lot of the pacific beaches in Washington are part of the Olympic National Park. I liked the rain squalls visible below the clouds. You can also see several people at the waterline. This is good razor clam digging during the typical short season (spring) … some of my earliest memories are of razor clam digging.
Olympic Coast Weather
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.