During the four years J Harlen Bretz spent in Seattle, he managed to examine an amazing number of sites, the bluffs south of Alki Point included. He focused mostly on determining if those bluffs contained visible exposures of Admiralty till - which they apparently do not. I ventured in that direction the other day, mostly in order to reacquaint myself with the general area - it's been decades since my last visit. Traffic was hellish, especially along Beach Drive, so I bagged the idea of driving south along the shore, deciding instead to walk the beach along the north side of Alki Point. I hadn't gone far before I ran into the character above. He apparently wanted to fly from the wall to someplace almost directly behind my head, and - as crows everywhere are inclined to do - took the route presenting the shortest distance between those two points. Cheeky bastard.