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Joemma Beach State Park
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Joemma Beach State Park

west of Lakebay, Washington
visited 10 and 23 July 2021
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Joemma Beach is just what it says on the tin: a beach.

I visited this park on three separate occasions: once at midday, again to capture sunset, and a third time as a launch site to visit another state park (as yet unpublished here).

A long wooden pier extends out over calm blue water at Joemma Beach State Park, with a large leafy tree silhouetted in the foreground and a gravel shoreline below. A sailboat and small boats are moored offshore beneath a clear blue sky, with a forested shoreline across the water.
A hand-painted wooden sign on a park bulletin board reading “This is what 6 feet looks like,” illustrating social distancing with a row of twelve red rock crabs wearing face masks, with educational text about the crabs. Above it are posted “No Fireworks” and “Borrow a child’s life jacket free!” notices, and the board stands over dry, weedy ground.

There are a few short hiking trails in this park:

A dirt and gravel hiking trail winds through a dense evergreen forest of tall conifers, with lush green ferns and undergrowth crowding both sides and patches of blue sky visible between the tree trunks on a sunny day.

But, really, this park is about the beach and the access to the water:

A long wooden fishing pier extends out over the calm blue waters of Puget Sound under a clear deep-blue sky, with a few people walking along it. Tall evergreens and leafy green trees frame the grassy shoreline in the foreground, where an interpretive sign, picnic table, and wooden fence are visible, with forested land on the distant far shore.
A pebble beach curving along a calm bay under a clear blue sky, with a forested bluff of dense evergreens rising on the right and distant hills across the water. A child in a dark top and shorts stands on the rocky shore in the foreground, with other beachgoers scattered along the waterline in the distance.
Tall evergreen trees silhouetted against a golden sunset over a calm inlet at Joemma Beach State Park, with the sun glowing low behind a large tree, a picnic shelter, picnic tables, and logs lining a dry grassy waterfront campground.
A golden summer sunset over Puget Sound at Joemma Beach State Park, with the sun flaring through silhouetted evergreen trees along a shoreline. A paved road curves along the left beside calm water, a wooden rail fence runs along a grassy slope on the right, and a small figure stands near a tall tree trunk.
A wooden footbridge with chain-link railings leads toward a shoreline, a paved park road, and a dense stand of tall evergreen trees lit by warm low-angle evening sunlight under a clear blue sky at Joemma Beach State Park.
A long wooden pier with a chain-link railing stretches toward a floating dock where a sailboat is moored on calm water at Joemma Beach State Park, with a few people walking along the pier and a forested shoreline in the distance under a clear evening sky.
The setting sun glows golden through the branches of a tall conifer beside a paved parking lot, with “NO PARKING” painted in yellow on the asphalt in the foreground and a low rock wall and water visible in the hazy distance.
A long wooden pier on cross-braced wood pilings extends out over calm water into the distance, lit warmly by low evening sun, with a forested shoreline and a small boat visible far off under a clear pale-blue sky.
A calm bay at sunset with the sun low over a distant tree-lined shoreline, two small boats moored on the glassy orange-reflecting water, and a forested headland rising on the right.
A quiet marina dock with several small boats, including a motorboat and an inflatable dinghy, moored in calm water beneath tall pilings. In the distance a forested shoreline sits under a soft orange-and-blue evening sky as the sun sets over the water.
The sun sets low over calm Puget Sound waters, casting an orange glow and reflection across the bay. Three boats are anchored in the still water, with a tree-covered bluff rising along the shoreline to the right and distant forested land on the horizon.

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