The Pacific Northwest Coast

The Pacific Northwest coast is a stunning, thriving cacophony of movement and sound – a rich ecosystem that tantalizes with its intriguing blend of life and death and decay and transition. Deep green forests line miles of rocky cliffs and sand and pebble beaches. Waves flow, crash and resound in a daily tidal cycle against the changing lines of land. We immersed ourselves in this arresting landscape for a full week where we experienced as many shifts in weather as we did tides, and discovered strange, wonderful, curious and sometimes disturbing images along the beach. Here are some of those images with more to come in future coastal-themed blogs.

Olympic National Park's coastal section between Chilean memorial and Cedar creek


Driftwood north of Rialto beach

Watching the waves on a surprising sunny day in October

Sea stacks at sunrise

Wave-induced stone and pebble beach art

Man-made driftwood artwork - a coastal Christmas tree?

Seabirds awaiting the storm