Taylor Beach and November sun.

The skies are clear this week with out-flow winds from the northeast clearing the view of Mount Baker and the Olympic Mountains. With this comes colder temperatures and a few degrees of frost at night. Rains are expected to return next week.

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View North to Victoria, with Mount Baker (in Northern Washington State)  in the distance .

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Mid-afternoon view south to William Head and the Olympic Mts. in the background.

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View East over Taylor Beach where the tanker and container ship traffic looms precariously.

 

Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) on Taylor Beach

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The remains of an Octopus on Taylor Beach

Not a great picture but the remains of evidence that offshore of Taylor Beach, the giant pacific octopus goes through its life cycle, which is very short.. just a few years.

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Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Octopoda
Suborder: Incirrata
Family: Octopodidae
Genus: Enteroctopus
Species: dofleini (Hochberg, 1998)
Common Name Giant Pacific Octopus