Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA: Odds and Ends

Ruby Beach, #51, Washington State, USA, 2019

It has taken me forever and a couple of days, but I have finally sorted and worked through my backlog of photographs from our trip to Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula.

In previous posts, I have already presented various subsets of these pictures with commentary.

Here is what remains… the “odds and ends”, so to speak.

Odds and Ends

The first three images… flowing water in the fairyland forest on one of the many wonderful and relatively short trails in the Lake Quinault area. There is plenty of H2O to photograph in these parts. Very often, though, the problem is that the forest is so thick and lush it can be difficult to get into a position with a clear view:

Waterfall, #2, Washington State, USA, 2019

Creek, Washington State, USA, 2019

Log and Boulder, Washington State, USA, 2019

A pair of typically OIympic silhouettes:

Olympic Peninsula Silhouettes, Washington State, USA, 2019

Olympic Peninsula Silhouettes, #2, Washington State, USA, 2019

The tremendous amount of driftwood and weathered logs along and near the beach is a great place to find some interesting textures and patterns:

Olympic Coast Textures, #3, Washington State, USA, 2019

Olympic Coast Textures, #2, Washington State, USA, 2019

…and forms:

Multiple Goiters, #4, Washington State, USA, 2019

Olympic Coast Textures, #7, Washington State, USA, 2019

You’ll find some interesting, if chaotic, still lifes (“still”, until the next high tide, that is) if you watch the debris line along the beaches. As I say with the title of this one, “Barnacled Flotsam”:

Barnacled Flotsam, Washington State, USA, 2019

This is one of the many odd tree fungi you will see attached to trees and logs. It appears soft, but this one is quite hard. And those aren’t water droplets–its sort of a sap-like substance (experts, feel free to chime in with a comment):

Tree Goiter, #1, Washington State, USA, 2019

Low tide and low fog, creating patterns:

Tidepools, Washington State, USA, 2019

Beach textures:

Shell and Sand Ripples, Washington State, USA, 2019

A lone and alone human bean (sic) appears out of the fog:

Beach Walk, #2, Washington State, USA, 2019

Finally, a few random color images…

Working in the abstract, a pair of harbor reflections:

Waterfront Reflections, #2, Seattle, USA, 2019

Waterfront Reflections, #5, Seattle, USA, 2019

Who, exactly, is Jeff, and why is the City of Seattle in love with his balls? Does he own a store that sells baseballs? Footballs? Soccer balls? Or, should we… uh… think the unthinkable…

Oddities, #6, Seattle, USA, 2019

And to conclude this essay of oddities and endities, what better way than to present three photographs of what is surely the most bizarre, most disgusting, and most unhygienic, tourist attraction in the world–the Gum Wall. CAUTION: The smell of gum sugar in this narrow space is overwhelming and just might make you want to vomit if you hang around too long. Bring a bag:

The Gum Wall, #1, Seattle, USA, 2019

The Gum Wall, #2, Seattle, USA, 2019

The Gum Wall, #4, Seattle, USA, 2019