...a tucked away little stream below one of my favorite waterfalls in Olympic National Park.  Raindrops kept falling on my head in between the sunbreaks, and a few dropped on Zoom too.

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Secret Creek with Drops of Rain

...5:37 AM... waking up in partial darkness, but in total solitude. Tide was low. Coffee was brewing, so I had time to place Zoom on a feature of rock just above the water line. Coffee poured. Back in the tent... but more importantly back in the warm sleeping bag so I could listen to the low hum and big rumble of the sea.

La Push Rumble

...set up zoom with his red-headed stepchild, then lay in this perfect seaside hammock for awhile as we both listened to the nighttime seascape. 84 degrees, subtle wind, cold beer in hand. The plethora of coral fragments which wash up on most beaches here made for great acoustics. I hope you enjoy!

St. Croix Seascape at Night

...I enjoyed so many unique beaches on the Island... each with both subtle differences and massive differences acoustically, but the one beach where I was staying, I enjoyed sound sketches from the same place in different days and at different times of the day.
I normally aim the recorder in the opposite direction of the ocean... aimed at an off-shore rock or tree... something to bounce the sound, but on this occasion, I aimed Zoom directly out to sea. Do you hear any difference?
This was taken at sunset while I was busy snapping away at yet again another stunning sky.

St.Croix Seascape at Sunset

...just standing in the water with a cold drink in hand. It really doesn't get much better than this. The sea here is so salty that it is effortless to simply float there in the water without a care in the world.

St. Croix Slow Seascape in the Afternoon

...a beautiful sunrise on the rugged North Coast of Kauai.

Kauai Sunrise Cliffs

...a beautiful beach on a stormy morning, I photographed the surf from what I thought was a safe distance... alas the sea always wins. I was soaked by the end of the morning, but not a single regret.
As always, I recommend listening with headphones for the best sound quality. I hope you enjoy!

Kauai Secret Beach

just a bunch of frogs singin' in the rain

Frog Chorus

2024-0120 Deadman's Cove

...while i was busy shooting long exposure photographs in the early dawn, I propped up the Zoom Recorder towards an ancient and hollowed-out Sitka Spruce Log.  It's the most beautiful beach I have ever been to... and it sounds that way too.

Rialto Beach Olympic National Park

...a perfect windless night camping on the beaches of Rialto.  There was stillness in the trees, and the movement of the water was almost silent.  The glow of the embers that leapt... and echoed into the air...

Olympic National Park - Fire In The Firs

A Walk around the park with an acoustical sampling of various geysers, big and small.

Yellowstone Geysers, Steam Pots, and Spaghetti Pots

Dead Man's Cove at Cape Disappointment where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean.  Trust me when I say, some day, you have to visit this beach.

Dead Man's Cove

...it's not hard to just sit in places like these and listen.  (And it's not easy being green either.) A few moments in Olympic National Park have a way of lasting a lifetime.  This is a small little natural drainage falls you'll encounter on your way to Sol Duc Falls.  Needless to say, this trail can get quite a lot of traffic, so best to come early... or stay late if you want to avoid a lot of noise interruptions from the many hikers.  That's not the same as the big fat bumble bee that took a particular interest to the 'Red Headed Stepchild' that I use for a windscreen.

Sol Duc minor falls

Just below some vigorous falls along Avalanche Creek in Glacier National Park, I found a nice little eddy... The birds seemed to have found the same place as they emerged from the woods, to attempt a few sips in the docile areas of this raging river.

birds just below the waterfall

…a short, semi-steep trail from the 101 Coast Highway leads you down to this beautiful (and usually) secluded cove.  Craggy seastacks, turquoise tidepools, distant headlands, elegant seasonal waterfalls, and hillside strewn streams are all found here… and add all of that to an already immaculate beach, and you’ll get some of the most majestic views the Oregon Coast has to offer.  It’s best at low tide, and even then, one must negotiate the various features and scramble up and back down a few pinnacles to hike further down the beach, but it’s all worth it.  And it turns out, it is a nice beach to listen to too.

Where the River Meets the Sea

from the porch ...a cup of coffee, the sound of rain, and every once in awhile, the sky yawps and lights up.

Thunderstorm from Undisclosed Cabin

...it was a beautiful morning on this special beach.  I was the only human on this beach from dawn until about 1 PM, and it was heaven.  Per an early track of this beach which I posted the last time I was here, I aimed Zoom towards the ocean, and you could faintly hear the waterfall in the background.  You guessed it... this time, I aimed at the waterfall and you can faintly hear the lull of the ocean collecting its tones in these stones.  Also... I was hearing this low rolling hum the whole time I was there, and this was picked up in a subtle way in this recording.  I'm not sure where the sound originated, but I have to think there was some droll echo in the shallow pool bouncing from rock to wood to water and back again, which seemed to bellow out of the small cove behind the falls.  I'll have to go back and ramp up the mic level to see if I can identify this sound precisely.  Until then... enjoy.

Secret Beach Waterfall

An amateur photographer and acoustical note taker in the PNW.  If I'm not snowboarding, kayaking, mountain biking, surfing, camping, fishing, cooking  or tending my garden... I'm out in the woods or up in the mountains or down by the sea somewhere taking photographs, writing, sipping good whiskey and recording some of the silence and solitude of the beautifully quiet and uninhabited places.  Please visit my Instagram Page for additional photos:  eldorado11_LE
Note:  I am using a Zoom H4n Portable Audio Recorder for these... thus, I recommend enjoying the recordings with noise-cancelling headphones for best sound quality.

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