Having spent Christmas Eve with one sister, I was spending Christmas Day with my other sister in Belling- ham. I decided to take the Bayview Edison Road to Chuckanut Drive.
When I came to the flat farm land, there were eagles every-where.
I saw both mature and young.
I think I lost count some-where around twenty five.
I saw more eagles on Christmas than I ever have up on the Skagit River.
It's been way too cloudy the last few days so I went back to a photo I took September 12. The sun was setting right over Smith Island. The Olympic Peninsula is at the left. I was on the west side of Whidbey Island at, aptly named, Sunset Beach.
Mt. Baker was sporting a new covering of snow last Sunday, December 14th, in the afternoon sun. I was southwest of Oak Harbor, on a street off Scenic Heights Road.
There are many places on Whidbey Island where one can relax and enjoy the view of mountains and sea. One is at the end of Hastie Lake Road, a public access area on the west side of the island. You could enjoy the morning view of the Olympics, as I did, or come back in the evening for awesome sunsets.
This is the view from above the Sno-Isle Library parking lot in east Oak Harbor, the view many have from the navy housing on the hill. This is looking southwest, across Oak Harbor Bay. The city of Oak Harbor is at the right. The Olympic Mountains are above the area called Scenic Heights.
Two storms came through Whidbey in the last couple of days, leaving over an inch of rain. Some drains are not doing their job, as shown here in a parking lot.
The North Cascade Mountains catch the last of the sun's light. This might well be the scene about a month from now as I took this photo in January of this year. I was on the west side of Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island.
The southern foothills of Mt. Baker caught the afternoon sun as I was on the Guemes Channel Trail on Fidalgo Island. The weather was not the best that day so I definitely plan to go on that trail again.
Relaxing, watching the sunset at Ft. Ebey State Park. The Olympic Mountains are in the distance. I took this photo in September, when the sun was still setting to the north of the Olympic Peninsula.
I took this shot from the west side of Oak Harbor on Veteran's Day, before the cloudy and rainy weather set in. The Cascades are shown on the horizon, not yet having received any winter snow.
A couple on a sunset beach walk at Joseph Whidbey State Park on the west side of Whidbey Island. Vancouver Island is on the horizon. This photo was taken earlier this fall.
The conditions were just right for this view of Mt. Rainier before sunrise from the west side of Oak Harbor. The mountain is around 90 miles away and often cannot be clearly seen.
The profile of the Cascade Mountains at dawn on a recent morning. I was at Flintstone Park on Oak Harbor Bay. The Oak Harbor Marina is in the foreground.