Snowshoeing at Artist's Point (Part 3)

Another snowshoeing trip to the Mount Baker area.  Edward (our youngest son) saw my pictures of the last excursion and wanted to go.  The weather report was good and we, hoping to catch the sunrise from Artist's Point left at 5:00 am and were on the way up to Artist's Point by 6:30 am while it was still dark.  As the sky lightened it became more obvious that clouds were moving in and by the time we were at the top only occasional openings in the clouds allowed us to see the sunrise or the surrounding peaks.  We took enough photographs for a post anyway, but did not go to the top of Table Mountain as we had planned since we concluded that the views would not be any better up there.

Mount Baker

(the only glimpse we had of the peak - the other shots are of the surrounding area)

Mount Shuksan

Table Mountain

The Sunrise

 

Ross Lake

The Snow

The Trees

Views

Deception Pass

Some of our children and grandchildren were here over the holidays and I managed to get out with my son-in-law for several photographic excursion, one of them on January 4th to Deception Pass, a popular and beautiful tourist destination in western Washington.

Deception Pass is a waterway between Fidalgo and Whidbey Islands.  The explanation of the name is give on the sign at the parking lot and refers to the discovery of the pass by Europeans several hundred years ago.

One of the features of the pass is the bridge, built in the 1930's and standing at 177 feet above the water.  There are actually two spans, the shorter bridging Canoe Pass and the longer Deception Pass and connecting at Pass Island.

We walked across the bridge to Pass Island and took photos from the bridge and from the island which can be accessed from the bridge, including photos of the beautiful Pacific Madrone trees which grow all over the cliffs around the pass.

There and on the beach I also photograph some lichens and fungi, including a mushroom tentatively identified as the Cucumber Cap, the Common Jellyspot Fungus, the Ragbag and Coastal Reindeer and Cladonia Scales Lichens.

After exploring the bridge and Pass Island we hiked down to the shore and while my son-in-law experimented with differently colored strobe filters I wandered around photographing whatever I could find including seaweed and rocks.