Seattle and the Olympic Penninsula, 2003

Seattle

Seattle from the Bank of America Building	West toward the Olympics	SE toward Mt. Rainier
East toward the Cascades	Downtown from Volunteer Park	The Space Needle and the Olympics from Volunteer Park
The water tower at Volunteer Park	The climbing tower at REI	From the 11th floor of the Sheraton

What's that I hear? Could it be a Puget?

Amy with one of the Very Fancy Apples	View of the Olympics from the S.S. Walla-Walla	Docking in Edmonds

The Hoh Rain Forest

Welcome to the Hall of Mosses...	Featuring Big Trees...	And Copious Mosses!
Amy in the forest primeval	Up close and personal with the clubmoss	Stop taking pictures, dammit!
Shattered fallen tree.	The Hoh River;	it really is that color!
Mile 3 on the Hoh River Trail	Me Tarzan, You Jane!

The Lake Ozette-Pacific Ocean Hike

A map of the Ozette hike	Walking the planks at Lake Ozette	The Sun comes out as we near the ocean
Big cedar	It is a rain forest after all	On the beach
Strange rock formations	Petroglyphs at Wedding Rock	Amy, three whales, the sun and the moon
Close-up of Orca Petroglyph	Petroglyphs again	Looking through a hole in a sea stack
Amy bypassing a headland	Looking north from near Sand Point

Misc. Olympic National Park

The lovely Crescent Lake	Juvenile and Adult Aruncaria Pines (Monkey-Puzzle trees) outside our B&B	Creek near Sol Duc hotsprings
Sol Duc Falls from above	Sol Duc Falls from the bridge	The best shot of Sol Duc Falls
Downstream at Sol Duc	Marymere Falls	Right before the camera battery died...