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ShiShi Beach Trail photo meditation

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ShiShi Beach Trail photo meditation

Calm mind and body with this 20-photo meditation from ShiShi Beach Trail in Olympic National Park. Spend 20 minutes or more getting lost in the textures and colors.

I hopped in my car this week and drove to the Olympic Peninsula. While I love living in the Emerald City, sometimes it’s healing and powerful to make a clean break away from the hustle and bustle represented by the sea of highrises towering over the Space Needle. 

My destination was the Makah (Ma – caw) Indian Reservation, on the very tip of the Peninsula. The current community of 1,700 people lives on a small fragment of the traditional territory that once stretched to the soulful beach near the Lyre River — where I’ll facilitate nature retreats this fall. There are still spots available, and I’d love you to join me. 

Tourists funnel out to Cape Flattery, the most NW point in the Continental US. But there is much more to this remote part of Washington State. I stayed two nights to avoid rushing. I need to experience the morning mist, the lighting of different parts of the day, and the changing tides. 

The trail from the Makah Reservation to Shi Shi Beach in the Olympic National Park continues over rock stacks and along pebbly beaches for 73 miles. I certainly wouldn’t go that distance, but I remained open to the options. 

These photos were taken as I wandered on an internal and external odyssey with the spirits of land and place. I lost all track of mileage and time — when I decided to turn around and head back. As it was, this nature immersion was a six-hour and 9.5-mile delight. 

Allow the images to immerse you in a soulful place, and please take your time. 

Spend one minute connecting with each photo. It’ll be a powerful twenty-minute nature meditation — a great way to kick off your day. Recent research shows that even looking at nature photos for 20 minutes can change the brain (for the better). 

Get lost in the landscape’s textures, colors, and emotions, and let me know how it goes. 

Happy nature walk! Matthew

The roadway to ShiShi Beach on the Makah Indian Reservation is paved with an unmarked road. Here, deciduous trees with green foliage hang over the roadway.

Red berries cling to a bush on a hike on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. The leaves around the red berries have large droplets clinging to them.
A collection of green leaves cling together in the depths of a hike in the Olympic Peninsula rainforest. There are a few fir needles on the wet and glossy leaves.

The path to ShiShi Beach on the Olympic Peninsula is full of twists and turns. A cedar tree is on the path above sword ferns and other green foliage.
A boardwalk leads to ShiShi Beach on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. The fir planks are glistening with dampness of the rainforest while ferns and other green foliage surround the path. The canopy above has twisting fir trees.

Red berries cling to a shrub along the hike to ShiShi Beach. The muddy trail can be seen below out of focus.
The frond of a fern shows all the intricate patterns and seeds. One sword holds a heavy dew drop, waiting to fall. The canopy of the rainforest is out of focus above.

red berries cling to a shrub along the very muddy trail to ShiShi Beach on the Olympic Peninsula. The green leaves around the berries are damp from a recent rain.
Velvety moss clings to the branch of a tree deep in the rainforest of the Olympic Peninsula.

The portal from the forest to ShiShi Beach in Olympic National Park. A drift log is almost concealed by beach grasses and a sandy path leads out to the foamy surf of the Pacific Ocean.
Tide pools on ShiShi Beach reveal sea creatures in the salty rocks at low tide. A man stands in the distance on a barnacle clad rock and there are sea stacks rising up from the Pacific Ocean in the distance. The sky is gray.

A human hand holds some of the particles of sand from ShiShiBeach. It looks cold and there are footprints out of focus in the distance along with blurred seastacks and the low tide rocks.
A hiker stands at the edge of a thick bunch of seaweed exposed at low tide on a beach hike in Olympic National Park.

Tide pools and rocks stacks in the Olympic National Park. A salty tide pool is in the foreground with grasses swaying under the water while barnacles and other seaweed varieties cling to the rocks above.
At low tide, the hike on ShiShi Beach in the Olympic National Park offers a path by sand and barnacle clad rocks. Here two fir trees can be seen rising from the top of a rock stack under gray skies.

Fir trees and other textured plants rises up at the edge of ShiShi Beach on the Olympic Peninsula. The outline of the trees are reflected in a huge pool of saltwater revealed at low tide. There are a few large rocks in the water and the skies are gray.
The wide open peace of ShiShi Beach on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. A hiker can be seen in the very distance among the mist of the saltwater. The sand is glistening from ocean water and the clouds make interesting formations above a thick treelined of firs.

Waves of the Pacific Ocean crash upon rocks jutting up from the sand. In the distance rock stacks rise up to a thick treelike of fir trees under gray and rainy skies.
Delicate fern fronds seem to play with each other on a hike on the Olympic National Park in Washington State.

Forget life on a hike to ShiShi Beach in the Olympic National Park. There are a variety of ground plants here including licorace fern and other green plants with mossy dirt below.

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