Well, I guess this isn’t such a young buck … maybe 4 years old … but it wasn’t very large. He was wandering around in Fort Worden State Park. Even the bucks are used to people and aren’t as skittish as they typically are in the National Forest (for example). And without any natural enemies (except auto traffic), they numbers are way too high … so they attack my hydrangeas and fuchsias for a snack.
This is the lighthouse at Point Wilson in For Worden State Park in Port Townsend, WA. I had to walk around a bit to get the ‘bow coming down close to the lighthouse, and didn’t notice the flock of birds (too far away for me to identify) until I was reviewing the image at home. The sunlight brightening up the lighthouse was particularly nice.
This is the lighthouse at Point Wilson on Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend. There was just a hint of a rainbow. Fortunately, it wasn’t raining on me.
This is a section of Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, WA. The water is the distance is the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the land in the distance is the southeast corner of Vancouver Island.
I thought it looked like waves of ocean spray were breaking over this trail. Ocean Spray is also called “ironwood” because the wood is so hard. NW native peoples used the wood for such things as arrows and harpoon shafts. It was also used as nails in carpentry before iron was available. It is common from sea level to mid elevations in the Pacific Northwest.