Olympic Iliad-Olympic Sculpture Park

Alexander Liberman’s Olympic Iliad, orange-red painted steel sculpture, installed in 1984 on the lawn southwest from the Space Needle. In the background is the famous Space Needle painted the original “Galaxy Gold” for it’s 60th birthday celebration.

I like the way people are seated all around the various sculptures found in this Seattle Park.

You have to get up early for reflection

Lake Crescent is so beautiful…even better from the water.

I love the reflections of the rock walls in the water here. But every day by about 10 am the winds have begun and no more reflections.

This area is of a railroad tunnel ( just to the left of the wood bridge) that is now part of the Olympic Discovery trail.

Faraway Friday-the Arctic. There is a story behind this splash…

So this is a Brunnich’s Guillemot chick landing in the water after jumping or often after being PUSHED off the CLIFF because it’s time to migrate to Greenland.

Here is dad who flew right after him to protect him from the Kittiwakes and Glaucous Gulls who swoope right in to munch the defenseless chicks. THe chick black head can be seen to the right of dad. He was a good dad, he reared up and snapped at all the gulls trying to get the chick. He then hid the chick under the cliff wall at the waters edge while he continued the battle. Then he acted like he could find the chick until the gulls went away (we were all devastated thinking the chick had drowned). Suddenly when all was clear he went and got the chick.

Chicks, we were told, can’t fly for almost a month. Chick and dad will swim to Greenland together!