CAPE JOHNSON -- You expect a winter hike on the Olympic National Park's jumbled and jagged ocean coast to be wet, cold and magnificently miserable. But sitting here on a crescent bay, as a flaming winter sun screams pinks and reds across the sky as it sets behind sharp-angled sea stacks, it almost feels as if you're in a South Seas paradise.
By Greg Johnston | March 3, 2005
PORT ANGELES -- You've heard about Olympic National Park's magnificent wilderness beach strip, with globally intriguing spots such as Point of Arches, Cape Alava and the Giant's Graveyard.
We've told you about Dungeness Spit, arching six miles into the wind-swept Strait of Juan de Fuca, and its picturesque lighthouse.
Many avid Washington hikers have tripped along the wonderful wildflower bluffs of Ebey's Landing on Whidbey Island.
By Greg Johnston | July 29, 2004
Birders' Top Spots
Location: Anacortes.
Habitat: A 200-acre, family-friendly municipal park with cedar, fir and madrona forest, grassy bluffs and boulder-strewn coastline.
Best seasons for birding: Good birding year-round.
November 6, 2003
If sand between your toes starts to feel as familiar as cellphone static, youre getting closer.
Closer, that is, to feeling farther away from it all. Which is probably why you'd be out here in the first place, leaving cares, concerns, worries and shoes behind as you partake in one of the greatest natural gifts our homeland offers up.
A beach walk, that is.
By Ron C. Judd | July 25, 2002
