Battery Kinzie

Fort Worden is also home to Battery Kinze. A fortress that formerly housed long guns to defend the straight of Juan de Fuca. This is an ARTISTIC version of the battery. 1. Staff paint over the graffiti with whatever paint they have creating quite the mosaic of color. 2. There is very little light is all the rooms creating quite a creepy effect (thus the ghost man at the end…

Wildlife Wednesday–Barred Owl

On my fox trip to San Juan Island my friend and I were exploring in the van, and she screamed OW! OW! or so I thought…

It was OWL! This guy had just flown to a branch parallel to the van. I stopped, got my camera climbed over (actually on top of) my friend to shoot out the window. Usually they are very skiddish, and I didn’t want to miss the shot.

After I took this, he flew to another branch about 20ft away. I was able to get out of the van and photograph him as long as I wanted. He wasn’t going anywhere.