First Beach & Cape Flattery 2-20-2012

The last day of our adventure, we started out on the beach outside of our room, First Beach, which we actually hadn’t walked on yet. 

We wandered down to the end where there was a stranded Coast Guard buoy.

Leaving La Push we went up to Hwy 112 and out to the most Northwest point of the contiguous United States, Cape Flattery.  It is a gorgeous cave-riddled point of sandstone, teeming with turquoise waters and birds of all types. 

One stack was sprinkled with seagulls.

The birds in this video are black oystercatchers.

Here was a pair of harlequin ducks, which bobbed around in the waves and dove down for their dinner.

We were pleased to find a majestic eagle also enjoying the most NW point. 

Here we are at Cape Flattery with the Cape Flattery Lighthouse on Tatoosh Island in the background.  It would be a fun lighthouse to visit!

We had lunch in Neah Bay, where we saw this oddity.

There were actually 5 bald eagles in this harbor.  See the one on top of the fishing boat mast?

We also got to see a kingfisher as we ate, but I had trouble zooming in on him clearly.

What an amazing weekend!   It was hard to leave the song of the surf behind.  The sound of my little fish tank at night is just a sad substitute.