RHH's photos with the keyword: oak harbor

We went to Whidbey Island today to see the very rare Ozette Coralroot (shown below) in bloom at the Pacific Rim Campus of the Au Sable Institute. South of Oak Harbor we passed a field where a farmer was cutting hay and had the opportunity to photograph a number of bald eagles foraging for rodents in the cut hay. This eagle is not quite mature as is evident from the brown color on his tail. Additional pictures of the eagles and of our excursion can be found at: ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2010/06/whidbey-isl...

On Whidbey Island south of Deception Pass State Park and north of the town of Oak Harbor lies the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. Used, I'm told, especially for training flights there are times when the area around Deception Pass is filled from dawn to duck with the roar of planes. That was the case one of the days we camped at Deception Pass. There were several different kinds of planes flying short runs out over Cranberry Lake and around over the Rosario Strait to the base, but this was the only one that appeared to be a fighter of some kind, which I've identified as a Boeing EA18 Growler used primarily for electronic warfare. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/09/deception-p...