Labor day included a few hours of labor with a promise to ourselves that we would get out and leave by 1:00. We headed to Deception Pass. The mountains looked stormy and Marysville was clouded in. We haven't visited the Tide Pools at Rosario for many years. Now they have a little marked trail to protect the environment. It is marked with stainless steel bolts driven into the rocks. We were there as the tide was coming in so didn't see much in the way of the larger more exotic tide pool inhabitants. David took this good picture of an anemone with some smaller shells (mussels and hermit crabs and limpets) as the water flowed in and out of this small pool. We only saw one small fish waiting out the low tide. Someone out there saw an eel, but we missed it.
This small gnome has occupied the top spot on the head land that separates rocky Rosario Bay from another small bay with a boat dock. This gnome has a fabulous view of rocky shore line, seaside sunsets and forested mountains behind him. Lucky guy. The headlands are populated with a mixed forest that includes one of our favorites - the Madrone tree. The Madrone with it's peeling orange bark is a delightful contrast with the blue green water of a sunny day.
(I don't know how I get these underlines - or how to get rid of them)
The underbrush included these bright Christmas red rose hips in contrast with the white of the pearl weed.
