Low tide at the Ozette Coast. A colony of gooseneck barnacles is nestled between mussels far out in the intertidal zone. In the distance beyond the breaking surf stand the islands of Flattery Rocks. 

Low tide at the Ozette Coast. A colony of gooseneck barnacles is nestled between mussels far out in the intertidal zone. In the distance beyond the breaking surf stand the islands of Flattery Rocks. 

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​A colony of gooseneck barnacles is nestled between mussels far out in the intertidal zone. In the distance beyond the breaking surf stand the islands of Flattery Rocks.
The coast of the Olympic peninsula, especially the sections protected by both indigenous Makah and Quileute tribes and Olympic National Park, are some of the last truly wild and rugged beach in...

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A path of cedar planks winds its way through dense coastal forest. The forest is dominated by every shade of green imaginable, from the bright points to the shadows.
Looking south down the Olympic coast at low tide. Seaweeds of electric-green mingle with meaty stalks of yellowy-brown kelp, crowding out tide pools filled with life. A foggy haze obscures a figure in the distance, perched atop a s
Tide pools have always drawn me in like a riptide. The creatures calling these ephemeral pools home are weird and wonderful. 
​A sunstar cruises along a smooth, algae-encrusted rock in a tide pool at the Ozette Coast. This one was a few inches across, but they can be a foot or more in width.
A small spider crab picks at food in a tide pool. It blends into its environment well.
Photo of a huge electric green sea anemone in a tide pool. A small hermit crab scuttles across its surface.
A bright orange starfish hunkers down amongst seaweeds at low tide. ​
​A strand of kelp shows its intricate patterns and strange texture, draped across rocks and barnacles in a tide pool.
A colony of gooseneck barnacles is nestled between mussels far out in the intertidal zone.
Two Indigenous tribes have lived on this stretch of coast for millennia, the Makah and Quileute. Hundreds of years ago, artists left behind petroglyphs on rocks along this route. Standing among these silent watchers...

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​A panel of Makah petroglyphs peaks out of a rubble pile on the shore.
​A famous panel of Makah petroglyphs peeks out from a high flat boulder in a shallow bay on the coast.
In this close-cropped photo, a hand touches a weathered panel of Makah petroglyphs on the Olympic Coast.
A campfire burns orange in the foreground, and in the blue darkness of twilight beyond, Pacific waves crash against a sea stack.
We eventually got to Sand Point, a long stretch of gorgeous sand beach with lush grassy headlands and craggy tide flats. The fog rolled in and a light rain reminded us that the...

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An unnamed sea stack with a natural arch forming a hole in the wall. Another sea stack rises out of the sea in the distance.
A creek cuts through the camps at Sand Point and out across the sandy beach to the sea.
​A vibrant neon sea anemone in a sandy tide pool near Sand Point. A hermit crab picks amongst the grains.
​A woman looks back and up at the camera as we descend a grassy sea stack at Sand Point. The coast curves away north and south and disappears into an enveloping fog.
A fog rolls over the patterned sand along a stretch of Olympic Coast beach. A woman in a rain jacket walks away from the camera into the mist.
​A woman walks toward a tent in a foggy coastal forest. Wind-weathered trees reach up into the fog rolling in from the west.
A portrait of a windswept forest along the coast, fading into the fog.
A woman poses on a bridge, and the perspective of the handrails highlight her in the center. A vivid green forest canopy forms her backdrop.
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