Rock piles
The isolation and protection that sea stacks offer is what makes them ideal nesting spots for thousands of seabirds. Tufted puffins and common murres, for example, along with guillemots and cormorants. You need wings to get to most of these rocky towers – the ability to fly is a flat-out requirement.
Some of the stacks along the Olympic coast are sacred to native peoples. Others are off limits because they are wildlife refuges. Most of them would be impossible to access anyway, even if it were legal and culturally responsible. Few of them are “islands,” as such; there are not many that feature suitable landing beaches. They are bony, stony, hard rock pillars, resolute sentinels on the jagged edge of the world.