Great blue heron dock behavior

Recently my friend Skyler Walker and I finished dinner at the Salt Hotel Pub in Ilwaco, Washington. It was a treat to visit with a friend I don't get to see more than once a year, twice if I'm lucky. It was a pleasant spring evening so we decided to walk down by the boats to see the tall ships, Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain. Instead this great blue heron captured our attention and I filmed it as we tried to figure out what it was doing on the docks.

An evening stroll and a great blue heron.

Rachel Carson said it grandly: Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.

East side of the Three Sisters volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.
The clouds were glorious that day.