a blog by Peter Leonard
This Sunday we made a trip out to the Olympic Peninsula to a lighthouse on Dungeness Spit, the longest spit in the US.
The lighthouse at the end of the 5.5 mile hike is really wonderful and offers amazing views, as part of a free guided tour that the volunteer keeper for that week gives.
The real attraction, though, is all the birds that swirl around you, on both the shore and in the air, as you walk down the spit. There are tiny sand pipers, large eagles, gulls of every sort, red-billed birds that dive into the water for fish, and many others:
In addition to the wildlife, the interaction of both manmade...
...and natural wood with the tide creates interesting images:
