Dungeness Wildlife Reserve

We picked a great day to visit the Dungeness Wildlife Reserve. This is where the sandy arm of land that extends out to the lighthouse you've seen previously joins to the mainland. It is a low spit of land and is covered with logs that have washed up as the waves beat the land. We arrived here after a 20 minute walk through forest filled with...silence. Almost no birds of any sort. More than a little eerie and pretty odd for a wildlife reserve.

As you can see, we are not the only ones out on the "clear" (PNW definition: mostly cloudy, but the you see the sun some) and cold day. They seem to mostly show the good sense to walk along the seaward shoreline where the going is easier. Before we went, I looked this up on Google Maps (as aways) and in the satellite view, this scattering of logs looks like so many chicken bones that have been picked clean and scattered across the land. 

Turning to look towards the mountains, we see a coastline shrouded by evergreens (naturally) and the mist produced by the breaking waves.

Since I know there are couple of you out there that are not such big fans of monochrome, here's the scene in color.

From the beach, we can see the crowds walking away from shore. This was a little surprising to me. The time now is after 3:00 and the sun sets about 4:30. I would not relish the thought of walking back through the forest in the gloaming.