On the west bank of the mouth of the Elwha River. Someone has hung windchimes in the trees that you thread through along the dike. A rain shower passes, then the Sooke Peninsula on Vancouver Island across the Strait grows ever clearer. Tide going out. There are gulls afloat in the river mouth, happily bathing, fluttering and ducking their heads. Crows. A small flock of black and white ducks fly by, curve in, and splat on river/Strait interface. Common goldeneyes, their round eyespot as obvious as the Barrows' curved one was on Wednesday. Later, some buffleheads.
The ferry appears, emerging from where Port Angeles harbor lies around the curve of the coast, and heads for Victoria. An Evergreen container ship passes outbound, too far to read its name. A Coast Guard cutter passes inbound, then hangs a right and heads into the harbor. Almost I can read its number, and it seems to be (via later web searching) the coastal buoy tender Henry Blake, named for the first lighthouse keeper on Dungeness Spit.
Wigeons, grebes, surf scoters, a great blue heron posing on the gravel bar in the middle of the mouth of the river.
Panorama, east to west: river mouth, Strait, Vancouver Island across the way, Striped Peak on this side, Freshwater Bay:
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