Jamestown Beach

Jamestown Beach Driftwood Sculpture Echoes Mt. Baker

With Mt. Baker as a backdrop, many find it difficult to not love our beaches, and notably, the views on Jamestown Beach are one of the main reasons why.

While at times, the “aroma” can be a bit intense, this beach is a Mecca for not only scenery, but local residents, visitors, and their dogs of every breed, size and shape. And if you’re not accompanied by a dog, then you may be searching for agates, sea shells, driftwood, shorebirds, raptors, ducks, Dungeness crab, or maybe even clams.

Whatever your beach passion, you’re sure to indulge it here and take those memories home with you in a bucket, your back pocket, or maybe on camera’s SD card, or your phone. Regardless, it makes living on the peninsula so spectacular and life here so enviable.

Green on Green

A Female Anna’s Hummingbird, Jamestown Beach

Typically, one goes to the beach to walk the shore, pick rocks or shells, or to see and listen to the waves crashing on the shore. But Jamestown Beach offers the best of the beach, as well as the woods, and this young female built her nest there.

Holding on to a branch she kept steady as I moved closer to her and surprisingly she didn’t blink an eye as I lifted my camera to focus to get this image. Those are times when I feel at one with nature and so eternally grateful for the solitude it provides.

Jamestown Beach Takeoff

On yet another sunny Sequim day, I found this local GBH (Great Blue Heron) ready to blast off into the wild blue yonder after fishing for breakfast on Jamestown Beach.

Their massive wings never cease to impress, and when you’re fortunate enough to encounter one, it’s difficult not to come home with a photo to capture the moment.

There are some really cool facts about them is on the www.allaboutbirds.com website, and this is one: ‘Great Blue Herons have specialized feathers on their chest that continually grow and fray. The herons comb this “powder down” with a fringed claw on their middle toes, using the down like a washcloth to remove fish slime and other oils from their feathers as they preen. Applying the powder to their underparts protects their feathers against the slime and oils of swamps.

Who knew???