October 2, 2013 Salt Creek Rec Area, Washington

It was gray and rainy again. Big surprise. We hiked around the park some.

This first photo is what is over the cliff in front of the campsite. The second is more of the tide pools, but at high tide

Same tide pool area  at lower tide, another shore at high tide.

Same one at lower  tide. A harlequin duck.  I had seen  photos of these ducks, but never seen one before. Really pretty.

A sea stack at high and lower tide. The tide goes low enough that you can walk to the island at low tide.

Rainy peninsula.  John smoked some tasso, pork and chicken, plus made onion soup for lunch while I hiked around.

Tongue point is underwater at high tide, but above water at low tide. Almost like magic. Instant tide pools. Looking at John and the sea stack back toward shore from Tongue Point at low tide.

Warning signs. You have to be careful, when the tide comes in your route back to shore could be cut off. The rocks were so slippery it was so hard to walk around it was scary.  Red seaweed, anemones with gravel and sea shell pieces adhered to the outside, lichen and moss on a tree, chitton, anemones, harlequin ducks.

mussels in a red seaweed called Turkish towel, anemone, patterns in kelp leaves, sac seaweed-keeps it’s water for when it is above water, red seaweed.

anemones, barnacles, limpets. The sun was out by now and setting.

Crescent bay at low tide, it was all the way back to the green shore at high tide.  one of two large batteries that housed a 16 inch gun at Fort Hayden. This was a military installation during WWI and WWII.

John inside the battery with some of the shells the 16 inch guns fired. Sunset from our campsite. This park was voted one of the top places to watch sunsets.

Closer up of the dramatic clouds in the sunset. The clouds are in Canada, over Vancouver Island.