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Birch Bay State Park
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Birch Bay State Park

south of Blaine, Washington
visited 2 April 2022
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Birch Bay State Park is located on Washington’s Pacific coast between Bellingham and the Canadian border. When I visited in early April, plenty of people were enjoying almost three miles of public shoreline.

Weathered driftwood logs scattered on a gravel beach with a teepee-shaped stack of sticks, beneath a heavily overcast sky over calm gray water, with a forested shoreline visible in the distance.
A large weathered driftwood log with a bleached, root-splayed stump rests on rippled gray sand, with more sun-bleached logs and driftwood piled behind it and a strip of green grass along the top edge.
A quiet pebble beach curves along the calm, silvery water of Birch Bay under a heavy overcast sky, with a wooded, gently sloping point and distant hills on the horizon to the left.
A tangled pile of washed-up bull kelp with long tan hollow stipes and dark decaying blades lying on a beach of gray pebbles and coarse sand, with one long kelp strand curving out to the right.
A large weathered driftwood stump with twisting bleached branches rests on a pebbly gray beach, surrounded by scattered smaller driftwood logs, under an overcast sky with calm water and low hills on the horizon.

Running just behind the shoreline is Terrell Creek …

A large weathered fallen tree trunk lies across the surface of a calm, murky pond, its bare branches mirrored in the still water. Behind it, the wooded bank is lined with brushy shrubs and trees beginning to leaf out in early spring green.
A calm creek winds through grassy marshland toward the water at Birch Bay State Park, its still surface reflecting a tall silhouetted evergreen and bare trees along the banks under a heavy, overcast sky with a band of pale yellow light near the horizon.

… and beyond that is the campground which was just stirring to life for the summer season when I visited.

An outdoor concrete basketball court with a white backboard and red rim in a wooded park, next to a small brown covered picnic shelter with a metal bike rack, surrounded by tall evergreen trees and green grass under an overcast sky.
A wooded campsite at Birch Bay State Park with tall evergreen conifers rising from a bare dirt clearing, a picnic table and low wooden posts marking the site, and a paved road running across the foreground.
A gravel dirt road curves through a wooded area, its center covered with bright green moss growing along the untraveled strip. The road is lined with leafless deciduous trees, tall evergreens, and dense understory brush, with fallen leaves and new spring growth along the forest floor.
A view across an empty coastal road toward a beach strewn with weathered driftwood logs, with calm gray water and a forested shoreline in the distance under an overcast, cloudy sky.

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