The fun thing about the Salt Creek / Crescent Beach area on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, is that it is such a great place for kids. Low tide will stretch the beach beyond Turtle Island, which is an ideal place to look for buried treasure or find critters in tidepools. Watch out, though! When the tide comes in, the island is surrounded by crashing waves!
Other fun things to do:
- throw sticks in the creek and watch them float downstream
- make things go splash
- stomp on dried algae pods and make them pop!
- see how many bugs hop out when you lift up a pile of kelp
- make castles (or maybe cakes, or maybe even sea monsters) out of sand
- feel the sand between your toes
- and be very very quiet when a chipmunk comes up close…..
This is such a great blog, you are so fortunate to be living so close to nature; the mountains are to die for, the range of wildlife fantastic and above all a sense of magnitude and calm pervades. Love your photos.
By: wighteye on February 15, 2009
at 10:07 am
Thank you for your kind words! I am kind of new at this, but it sure has been fun seeing what other people do and where they live. Yes, we live in a pretty unique corner of the planet – the rivers, the mountains, and the sea all come together on a peninsula of land. It is relatively unpopulated. You can find wilderness and solitude. It has been fun sharing some of this. Thanks for visiting! …blythe
By: blythelight on February 15, 2009
at 5:11 pm