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Twin Harbors State Park
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Twin Harbors State Park

south of Westport, Washington
visited 15 August 2021
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Twin Harbors is the quintessential Washington coast experience: cool, grey, and blustery, even in the midst of summer. It was a great opportunity for a leisurely weekend stroll.

We walked over the dunes and onto the long sandy beach.

A narrow dirt footpath winds through a grassy coastal forest clearing, flanked by a large moss-covered pine tree leaning diagonally across the right side of the frame. Bright green shrubs and ferns line the trail under an overcast white sky.
A narrow sandy trail winds up a low dune, flanked by tall dune grasses on the left and dense green Scotch broom bushes laden with dark seed pods on the right, beneath an overcast gray sky.
Sigh. So much Scotch broom.
A narrow sandy footpath climbs between mounds of tall green dune grass toward a low grassy crest, beneath an overcast gray sky at Twin Harbors State Park near Westport, Washington.
Grassy coastal dunes dotted with wildflowers under an overcast gray sky at Twin Harbors State Park, with a sandy path winding through the beach grass toward the distant Pacific Ocean shoreline.
A sandy footpath winds through green beach grass and scattered driftwood across coastal dunes, leading toward the ocean where waves break along the shore under an overcast gray sky.
A sandy footpath winds through tall green dune grass toward the ocean under an overcast gray sky, with bleached driftwood logs scattered along the trail and a cluster of coastal shrubs to the right.
A sandy footpath winds through grassy coastal dunes toward a pile of weathered gray driftwood logs, with the ocean faintly visible on the horizon under an overcast sky at Twin Harbors State Park near Westport, Washington.
A wide expanse of flat, wet gray sand at low tide scattered with small pebbles and bits of shell, leading to breaking waves under an overcast, hazy sky at Twin Harbors State Park near Westport, Washington.
A tangled clump of green and brown seagrass washed up on smooth, rippled gray sand at Twin Harbors State Park, with scattered small pebbles and faint wave patterns across the wet beach.
Various shapes and faces drawn in the damp gray sand of a wide beach, with a darker band of wet sand and the water’s edge visible in the background under overcast light.
A small red kite with trailing streamers floats in an overcast gray sky above a broad, flat expanse of sand at the beach, with a strip of green dune grass along the horizon.
Weathered, split blocks of driftwood lie in a row on pale beach sand, their fibrous grain and cracked ends exposed, with a gnarled piece of silvery driftwood and tufts of dune grass behind them at Twin Harbors State Park near Westport, Washington.
Weathered gray driftwood logs resting on a sandy beach dune covered with tufts of green and golden dune grass, under an overcast, flat gray sky at Twin Harbors State Park near Westport, Washington.
A sandy path winds through grass-covered coastal dunes under a heavy, overcast gray sky at Twin Harbors State Park. Weathered gray driftwood logs lie among tall dune grass in the foreground, one bearing crude carved lettering, with a dark line of trees on the horizon.
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