South Coast Trail - Olympic National Park [Video]

Join me on a 5-day family backpacking trip on the South Coast Trail in Olympic National Park to photograph seascapes along this wild stretch of Washington Coast.  We start at Third Beach and make camps at Scotts Bluff and Strawberry Point.  Along the way, we found towering sea stacks, coastal sitka spruce forests, tide-pools, seals, sea otter, great blue heron and bald eagles. A pack of coyote howl 100 feet from our tent. Weather ranges from light rain to coastal fog to clear skies full of stars.

Sea stack near Toleak Point, Olympic National Park

Moonlit sea stack,Toleak Point, Olympic National Park

Great blue heron (Ardea herodias), Giants Graveyard, Olympic National Park

Camping on beach, Scotts Bluff, Olympic National Park

Old growth coastal forest, Olympic National Park

Giants Graveyard, Olympic National Park

Resources for South Coast Trail

• Olympic National Park

• Coastal backpacking

• Tide charts

Photography Equipment

• Sony a7R IV

• Sony 16-35mm f/2.8 GM

• Sony 24-105mm f/4 G

• Sony 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G

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