Ed Mead, the official caretaker at Kai Tai Lagoon Nature Park in Port Townsend, takes a moment out of his rounds of cleaning up litter on the pathways on Monday to watch a flock of ducks that had landed in the lagoon to his left. Mead moved to Port Townsend from California to be closer to his grandkids.
The city of Port Townsend owns the nearly 76-acre park.
