Some of our best hours in the Olympic National Park were spent exploring Second Beach on the Washington Coast. The one mile forest hike to the beach from a small parking area is just enough distance to keep crowds away and the sound of roaring surf echoing through the trees is one we won’t forget anytime soon.
Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette.
A magnificent shot!
Thanks!
Love this picture. Not a total black silhouette — shows much of the landscape but also the black of the rocks. Nice composition.
Thanks, Rusha! The beach colors were so pretty I wanted to include them but thought the rock was enough silhouette to meet the challenge. I’m happy to hear you like it. 🙂
Love love love this shot! 🙂
Thanks, Andy! We love, love, love this beach. 🙂
It’s so beautiful 🙂
A beautiful stretch of coastline. Nicely captured. Reminds me of the rocks at La Push.
Good eye, Eric we were right by La Push. 🙂 This area is between First Beach and Rialto.
so beautiful and so peaceful
Thank you. 🙂
oh LaPush-I was going to say Grinville out by Taholah.
Sounds like a place I’ll have to visit soon. 🙂
I love this!!! Beautiful!!
Thank you, we didn’t want to leave!
lovely shot.. at first i thought it was a ship grounded at the beach.. i’m sure it is huge because there are lots of trees on top.
This stretch of beach is filled with huge, stone sea stacks. Huge is a good word to describe how large some are!
This is a superb shot
Thanks so much, John. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
LOVE THIS!!! I need to get to the beach again soon…
Thanks, Tony I wish we were back there today! I think we’ll plan a return visit in the fall. 🙂
We are planning a winter trip to Cannon beach ourselves
Love the texture of the beach in the foreground! That area is my favorite part of the Washington coast.
Thanks, D’Arcy. It’s our favorite part of the coast too now!
Brilliant shot. Not too sure if it would be that safe to climb all the way up there 😀 It reminds me to the first scene in The Lion King that large rock and Simba on it 🙂
People do climb up these rocks but I’d rather enjoy the view from the beach. :). The Lion King image is a fun comparison.
Beatifully captured!!! I need to go check out that spot
Thanks, Andy you’ll love this beach!
Hi!!! I could not understand why I was not getting any of your posts and I just looked and WP removed me from following you! I have missed you. This photo is stunning!
I did not even know you started the One world challenge again 😦 I thought you stopped it !
Thanks for finding me again, Kathryn I’ve missed you too! Yes, the 1 World project is still going strong but were past the half way point now. :).
I certainly am glad I did. WP has done this before and I was off for awhile. I will wait until you start again! I hope you do!
There is an APP called Photo Republic that I just joined. It sends a prompt once a day with a theme and you have 15 minutes to take a photo, then it closes. You see funny interpretations from all over the world! I look forward to it.
Photo Republic sounds like fun, I’ll take a look! The next 1 Day post goes up tomorrow morning…it’s the 3am hour. A tough one!
Yes you definitely should I am going to do a blog about it and build some interest as its pretty new. 3:00 am…oh my goodness……do you set the alarm?
I just downloaded the app. :). Yes, I’m relying on the alarm now. There’s no way I’d make it staying up that late!
I can’t wait to see it and I am glad you did, it’s fun and my pics are from Horst.
That rock is so huge, LIsa! How amazing that it has a forest growing on the top. Great shot for the challenge.
Thanks Sylvia! This stretch of the coast is filled with these sea stacks and the views are amazing. 🙂
Stunning shot, Lisa! I’m in awe…
Looks wonderful there and I really like the composition of this image – the lovely textured foreground, and then your eye is drawn to the horizon and those rocks in the distance. That Pacific coastline is simply stunning.
Thanks, Jude. It was hard to leave this beach, I didn’t want to miss a minute of the views. At least I took plenty of photos. 🙂
Lisa, this image evokes the wonder of the area. It especially reminds me that we have mountains to climb and places to discovery. Truly a marvelous symbolic capture.
Thanks so much, Sally. We do indeed have mountains to climb and discoveries waiting around every corner. This beach is a special combination of both.
Can’t wait to see this on my laptop to really take in the detail. Love the silhouette of the trees on the rock.
I’m glad you like the small, mobile version, Nancy. 🙂
Wow – a smashing shot! A first short glimpse told me this was a stranded ship…but it’s a magnificent cliff! And the beach in front – stunning colours and texture. Well done.
Thanks so much for your nice comments! It’s great to know the photo shares a little bit of the amazing views from this beach. 🙂
Nice work.
Thanks, Paul. 🙂
Oh yeah!
That’s what I said when we walked through the treeline and onto the beach, Allan. 🙂
Your beach lead me to this striking post. I don’t remember seeing a more intriguing silhouette shot
How nice to hear, Paula! This is a beautiful, remote location on the Washington Coast and the location of the sun set up some great silhouettes. 🙂
Great! I love the patterns in the wet sand, the black silhouette of the rock and trees, and the low angle. 🙂
I’m happy to hear you enjoyed the view, Cathy. 🙂 Even though the horizon was amazing, I couldn’t stop looking at the patterns in the sand. 🙂
I followed Cathy here 🙂 I could be happy there!
So could we! Ryan even asked if we could move to this beach. 🙂 He didn’t want to leave…
Stunning capture!
Thanks!