A double-crested cormorant with black and brown feathers and yellow beak, taking off out of Puget Sound with its wings spread out above it and its feet barely touching the water. There are two splashes behind it, an the banks of an island covered with trees is visible in the background.

A double-crested cormorant taking off out of Puget Sound on the south side of Blake Island, Washington

#Birds #Cormorants #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsInFlight #PugetSound #BlakeIsland #PNW #SeaBirds #Scape #Photography #Boating

Wooden totem-like carvings that are painted white, black, and red, surrounded by green trees

Wooden carvings at the Blake Island Marine State Park, Washington

#BlakeIsland #PugetSound #SalishSea #ColorADay #RedWed #Photography

Two harbor porpoises surfacing in calm blue waters. In the background is a sailboat moored at a beach that has several people and a few tents on it. Thick trees are in the far back.

A couple of harbor porpoises spotted west of Blake Island yesterday. Please pardon the poor focus, they are quick and elusive, and were difficult to capture from a boat.

#PugetSound #Porpoises #BlakeIsland #PNW #Photography #Boating #SalishSea #Cetaceans #CetaceansSunday

Tahlequah at Blake Island. You can see the Space Needle in the background of the first picture. According to Suquamish oral tradition it was the birthplace of Chief Seattle, a Suquamish and Duwamish leader for whom the city of Seattle was named.
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#sailboat #blakeisland #statepark #seattle #pnw

A green numbered lateral marker with seagulls on top in Puget Sound; the Seattle skyline and a cloudy sky are in the background

Visited Blake Island yesterday, this is a view of the Seattle skyline from the marina. Note the Space Needle 😊

#PNW #PugetSound #BlakeIsland #Seattle #SpaceNeedle #Boating

A silhouette of a cormorant on a marina sign with a clouded sky and sun in the background. The sky is gray with thick clouds with the sun shining through, colors muted

Our #JanuArty #JanuArty2025 prompt today is ‘monochrome’ which takes us back to October of 2020, a dreary day at Blake Island with a cormorant guarding the marina 🪶

#Cormorant #Birds #Bird #PNW #PugetSound #BlakeIsland #Seattle #Boating #Photography #Moody #Gothic

A view of the Seattle skyline, including the Space Needle, from behind the head of a totem pole on Blake Island

A view of the Seattle skyline, including the Space Needle, from Blake Island, rumored to be the birthplace of Chief Si'ahl, namesake of the city of Seattle.

#Seattle #Duwamish #Suquamish #Lushootseed #ElliotBay #BlakeIsland #ChiefSiahl #SpaceNeedle #SeattleSkyline #PugetSound #SalishSea #Salish