Lovely morning to sketch at Narrows Park

We had a nice turnout at Narrows Park in Gig Harbor.  The tide was low enough to walk the rocky beach all the way to underneath the bridge.  Cloudy skies gradually lifted.  The views of the Narrows Bridge from this park are grand.

The throwdown

Urban Sketchers at Narrows Park. 
Welcome Barbara and Margi.  Joe not in photo.

Narrows Bridge

This is the bridge that replaced "galloping Gertie", the bridge across the Tacoma Narrows that swayed, bucked and then collapsed in the famous 1940 film.  Actually, it's now two bridges as another entire bridge was built recently so now there are more lanes across.  It connects the Tacoma area with the Kitsap Peninsula.

I had a short shift at Fort Nisqually today.  So I left early and took a drive around the somewhat cooler Pt. Defiance Park's 5 mile Drive.  There are so many trees that it was about 10 degrees cooler than the freeway had been earlier.  It is from one of the viewpoints that I made this sketch.