“Look at that sea, girls — all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn’t enjoy it’s loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
-Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
I was really taken with this beautiful and calm sea in Washington. The mixture of driftwood, sand, and shells (without the sometimes strong fishy smell of the ocean) were a perfect blend of a welcoming coast.
These pictures are mostly from the Dungeness Spit recreation area. It is a protected area for wildlife. The spit itself is 5.5 miles long with a lighthouse at the end. One can walk all the way down, but then of course you have to walk all the way back making it an 11 mile walk.
The Salish Sea is the intricate network of coastal waterways of the Cascadia bioregion that includes the southwestern portion of the Canadian province of British Columbia and the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Washington. Wikipedia