Seattle and the Olympic Penninsula, 2003

I don't understand! What's all this about?

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...

Charles Danforth
Last modified: Fri Feb 21 16:21:05 EST 2003