Introducing "Useless Bay".
It is located on Whidbey Island. It was named by Captain Vancouver while he was charting
the Northwest waters. It is a lovely wide, long bay that would have looked ideal from those wooden decks at high tide. However, the entire bay is extremely shallow, which Cap't. Vancouver and other explorers discovered at low tide when their tall-masted wooden ships listed to one side on the sands, being left "high and dry", so-to-speak.
This tide pool looked so blue:
Tide pools and the Olympic Mountains:
On our return to the ferry, we drove through a little beach community,
and spotted this - what? - "guardhouse"? at the driveway of a home.
Charming!
1 comment:
Charming is right--in fact that's the title (sort of) for my post with this cute little structure. I like your views of the beach; they really emphasize the expanse.
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