While on Bainbridge Island Chris and I headed over to Fort Ward State Park to see if we could get any cool pictures. When you get there you find this long very stoney beach that’s pretty much covered with old tree trunks and drift wood. There’s a boat ramp that leads you down to the beach so Chris and I grabbed our gear and walked down the ramp.
Along the beach we saw this wooden frame with loads of birds on the top, we thought it might make a nice picture and it didn’t seem that far away, so off we went. There wasn’t a path to follow you just had to walk over all the stones and carrying all my camera gear I nearly went over a couple of times. Also while at first it didn’t seem that far, it took us ages to get there (these things always seem closer than they are).
When we arrived at the wooden poles we set up the tripods and took some pictures. I thought it might look cool if all the birds took off so I picked up a stone and threw it towards the structure to try and startle the birds into flight. I was totally pathetic! My stone didn’t even make it half way and the birds didn’t move at all. I’m clearly getting very old, either that or I have totally unrealistic expectations over my athletic ability (probably both).
While I was attempting this I didn’t notice that the tide had started to come in and was already over the base of my tripod. So we moved back a few feet, took some more pictures and headed back. The water was really coming in fast and we only just made it back to the boat ramp before the beach was cut off. I’m so pleased we made it, but I guess it would have been a more interesting story here if we had got wet, luckily though that didn’t happen.
I actually think the picture below came out OK, the water was pretty still but you still get the wobbly pole reflections in the water. It was so peaceful there, really quite beautiful. I left the beach quite jealous of all the homes with a beach view.
Lisa made some Potato Salad today and when she wasn’t looking Carter and Master Chief pinched some!
