Watching the Olympics

We camped again at our favorite view point last weekend and watched the Olympic Mountains catch many different lighting aspects. This picture shows Mount Olympus (2428m)and the Hoh Glacier probably most of 100km distant.

Zoomed in. Notice the vessel outbound to the Pacific through the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

The last of the sun's rays presenting a 'golden' appearance.

A fine weekend camping and not as cold as we expected. Listening in to the commercial fishing boats was fun, hake are the prey right now and hopefully there's plenty managing to survive the onslaught. A big thrill for us on Saturday morning was the appearance of a Humpback Whale fairly close to shore (which means about 4km distance from us). Just visible to the eye but the plume when it it surfaced was a giveaway and the binoculars gave a decent view. Too far for the camera though. Stayed in view for a couple of hours following the incoming tide and likely feeding on herring and perhaps krill, after the tide turned it made an encore appearance for another hour or so in the afternoon.

While having coffee on Sunday morning we were again treated to some whale watching. This time a pod of Orcas (aka Killer Whale) proceeded to do much the same kind of thing as the humpback, moving with the tide and apparently feeding on herring. Much easier to identify from distance with the huge dorsal fin knifing across the surface, a few breaches would've been cool but no such luck from either of these sightings.