Tonight was beautiful. One thing I've noticed here (vs Juneau) is that there are 'normal' clouds. In Juneau, if it's cloudy, it's most often a solid sky of flat, grey clouds. Here, there's puffy clouds and flat clouds, and clouds that look like blooming thunderstorms. It's nice.
We went to the Nisqually Wildlife Refuge tonight. It's about 10 miles from home and there's a 4-mile (round trip) hike that goes through marsh and tidal flats. The last mile is a wooden boardwalk over the water/tide flats. I thought they must be exaggerating when they said the boardwalk was a mile (who builds one that long??) but it was definitely a mile.
This is a really nice park for walking and wildlife (mostly bird) viewing. Dogs and joggers aren't allowed. We saw some ducks and geese, a rabbit, and a bald eagle. To me, the wildlife viewing isn't as exciting or interesting here as it was in Alaska, but it was still a nice night. We've traded wilderness for pastoral scenes...
Goose families. Steve said the babies look like 'fuzzy footballs with legs'. Yep, they kinda do.
As we were leaving, the sun was getting low and really lighting things up beautifully!
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