Tongue Point

Drove out to Salt Creek Recreation Area to explore the tide pools at Tongue Point before hiking up to Striped Peak. There was a -2 ft low tide this morning. Looking south to the small island off of Tongue Point

Tide pools on Tongue Point, lots of mussels and barnacles.

Looking out across the Strait of Juan de Fuca towards Vancouver Island.

wildflowers on the cliff edge

Hole in the rock along the cliff at Tongue Point

The hole in the rock was large enough to walk through

Went out to the island, was able to walk about 3/4 of the way around.

The roots of one of the trees were hanging off the edge of the cliff

View across Salt Creek and Crescent Bay to the Olympic Mountains to the south

The tide was not out far enough to walk completely around the island this morning.

some finds in the tide pools:

anemone

lots of purple urchins

some interesting shells

chiton 

sea star hanging underneath a large rock formation\

anemones and barnacles

some type of worm perhaps

This anemone was larger than my foot

large anemone eating a fish