Viewed from a private deck on Mercer Island, in the company of interesting people.
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The view departing from the dock.
At the start of the summer - mercifully before the worst of this year’s sweltering Seattle heat - my boyfriend and I took a weekend mini-cation up to Lake Crescent and stayed at the foot of Storm King. He took his bike up into the mountains one morning, and I impulse-boarded an hour-long boat tour to see this deep, glacial lake from angles I’d never been able to access before.
Ripples on a glassy surface, with a tiny tiny Lake Crescent Lodge in the distance.
This long exposure took me half a dozen tries to get exactly right.
My boyfriend and I were invited out to the Olympic Peninsula one sunny, early summer weekend to be part of an event joint-hosted by Fjordlux and Helmsman Trawlers, an oyster producer and a recreational boat company, respectively. Initially I pictured a bunch of people sitting at a table eating oysters and drinking wine - but it was a lively, trivia-filled cookout and shucking event combined with a speaker appearance that is now the source of 99.99% of everything I know and will ever know about oysters.
Below: a few favorite shots from the event and its gorgeous marina location -
