[Alpendave]

Took a nice Sabbath stroll down to Guillemot Cove Nature Preserve along Hood Canal. In case you didn’t know, a guillemot is a type of coastal bird, which I didn’t see on this trip.

First section of trail

Washington?s state flower, the pacific rhododendron has for the most part finished blooming for the season. But I did find a small few that were still getting ready to bloom. These shrubs grow in amazing abundance along Hood Canal.

The access road down to the cove.

Amazing maple canopy.

First view of Hood Canal

Can you find the deer?

The southeast alpine area of the Olympics.

Looking across Hood Canal to Mt. Washington and Mt. Pershing

North along Hood Canal

Madrone tree

[touron]

Nice!

[IanB]

A real gem of a park on a nice, quiet, spring afternoon!