Posts Tagged ‘olympic national park’
Maybe the sinking economy and recent layoffs at Boeing, Microsoft and Starbucks will keep people away from Seattle…that’s fine with me!
The other day I posted a photo of the full moon sinking behind the Olympic Mountains from West Seattle. That image only captured a small section of the Olympic Mountains though. Below I stitched together six images to create a panoramic picture of the entire range. It’s not the cleanest stitching job I’ve ever done, [...]
There surely are benefits to living on the water in West Seattle. The peaks of Olympic National Park Washington often come into view, but on mornings like this, blanketed in fresh snow with a rising sun illuminating the peaks, they remind me how fortunate I am to live in an area with such splendid natural [...]
Some abnormally pleasant days in Seattle offer splendid days for sea kayaking off West Seattle. Kayak for two Beached on Beach Drive in West Seattle To see more sea kayaking photos from Seattle, British Columbia and beyond, click HERE
Photographs from Hobuck Beach, Cape Flattery and Shi Shi Beach on the Olympic Peninsula
The Olympic Mountains provide a picturesque background for anyone living in Seattle. Often cloaked in clouds, when they appear, especially in winter, they lure you in with a mysterious attraction. Olympic National Park, at almost one million acres, is nearly 95% wilderness and boasts glacier-clad peaks, desolate beaches and the last remaining temperate rain forest [...]
It’s very easy to take certain things for granted. Here in Seattle we’re often so focused on traveling down to Mt Rainier, or somewhere in the Cascades, or maybe over the Cascades for some high desert warmth, that we often forget about this relatively small chunk of paradise to our west. Of course everything is [...]
My fiancee and I recently moved back to West Seattle from Whitefish, MT. Initially this was a very difficult move to handle, going from a small town nestled on the edge of the rockies and Glacier National Park, to clashing daily with thousands of other people trying to move in and around the city via [...]
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Award-winning adventure photographer Ian Mackie moved to the Pacific Northwest 10 years ago, leaving behind the suburbs of Massachusetts in search of higher mountains, desolate trails and deeper snow.
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