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Seattle Scenes
(still sharing stories and pictures from this summer’s vacation – with sports winding down for the kids though, we are starting to collect some new nature stories for the fall) This day, after leaving Forks early in the morning, then driving to various points within Olympic National Park, then hurrying along to catch the ferry,…
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Crescent Lake
In between the Salmon Cascades near Sul Doc and the Hurricane Ridge viewpoint, we stopped here to complete the requirement for a virtual geocache. This place reminded me of Bear Lake, in Rocky Mountain National Park. I think it was the way the mountains cupped the lake between them. I have a picture from my…
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Oswald West State Park
So this is one of the best places ever. We never would have gone to this place, either, if it hadn’t have been for Facebook. Both of us “like” National Geographic on FB, and they post a Picture of the Day. One day, the photo captivated both of us, and we were like, we should…
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Tales From The Avenue of the Giants: We Do Not See The Albino Tree
Albino Redwoods are so very rare that only fifty of them are known to be in existence. Six of those are located inside Humboldt Redwoods State Park. Others have locations kept secret to keep foot traffic down near the trees. I thought I was going to take everyone to see one. I had the coordinates…