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Bay View State Park
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Bay View State Park

west of Mount Vernon, Washington
visited 20 June 2021
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Bay View State Park borders the Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, where marine biologists and other scientists study the plants and animals that call this bay home.

This park is probably best known as a camping park, but I chose instead to make a short day trip of it.

I’ll likely be back later in the summer, as it looks like an ideal launching point for one of the nearby island state parks.

Across the bay are the major oil refineries serving Washington and Oregon.

A wooden split-rail fence runs diagonally along a grassy shoreline bluff dotted with yellow wildflowers and bleached driftwood, overlooking a broad gravel beach and calm bay at low tide. Across the water, forested islands, distant hills and an industrial refinery sit under a bright blue sky streaked with wispy clouds.
A gravel and sand shoreline at low tide curves along the left edge of the frame beside a tidal flat dotted with rocks, with tall green conifers and grassy undergrowth lining the shore under a vivid deep-blue sky.
A low-tide tidal flat at Bay View State Park, with rocks and algae-covered mud in the foreground, a calm bay in the middle distance, and low forested hills dotted with distant industrial facilities and plumes of smoke under a deep blue sky.
A large, weathered driftwood log lies on sandy beach ground in front of tall grass and dense green shrubbery, its splintered, decaying center exposed in the morning light at Bay View State Park near Mount Vernon, Washington.
A large pile of weathered gray driftwood logs and sticks stacked haphazardly on sandy, grassy ground, with one tall piece pointing upward and a long log lying diagonally in front, backed by dense green shrubs and trees in bright morning sunlight.
A weathered concrete block on a rocky beach painted with a colorful mural depicting a great blue heron and a red octopus against a turquoise background, set at the base of an eroded, vegetated bluff. Driftwood branches, rocks, and chunks of concrete litter the sand around the painted structure.
A pebbly beach at low tide with a large leaning tree and fallen weathered driftwood at the shoreline’s edge, overlooking calm water and distant forested islands and a hilly headland under a deep blue sky with wispy clouds.
A large tree with gnarled, exposed roots clings to the edge of an eroding sandy bluff, its roots splayed over the pale sediment above a gravelly beach. Sunlit green foliage fills the background on a bright summer morning.
A lone evergreen tree stands against a vivid blue sky at a waterfront park, with tall green beach grass in the foreground, a wooden fence and picnic area behind, and a distant shoreline across the bay.

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