Epiphytes, blown from above
Epiphytes... either this or one above must GO. Haven't decided yet which. Colors in the first one could be fixed, I think.
Spot the bad join? Answers on an email. (View from Crown Point, Oregon, looking west.)
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The photos are not well organized yet, nor much text written. Having had a molar tooth out, and trying to do what I ought to be doing at the moment keeps getting in the way of "playing" with this!!
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Hatties!(Castle Rock, Washington. Note the two "Closed" signs in the windows. Did that defeat Barbara's organizing skills? Not for a moment.
The lady and dog kennel on the dead end road James so skillfully and graciously got us out of. Sorry about the fuzziness, but couldn't resist including. If only we could have met the resident. (Of the kennel).
Recovered watershed, only a year after dam removed
Kalaloch
Ah, if only "classrooms" could always be so splendid! (Kalaloch)
Pearly skies
Learning about removal of upper Elwha dam
A button celebrating the imminent commencement of the removal of the Elwha dams.
Overlooking "dead dam standing": The lower Elwha dam... scheduled for removal soon.
Epiphytes, blown from above
Epiphytes... either this or one above must GO. Haven't decided yet which. Colors in the first one could be fixed, I think.
Looking for Gene Helfman? Carpe pistrix! (Not carpe a carp!) (And did you know that it is not strictly correct to call a shark a fish? I realized that there was the great divide between the bony and cartilaginous gilled, non-amphibian vertebrates (osteichthyes vs chondrichthyes!), but not that we shouldn't call sharks "fish". Learn something new every day! Now I'm safe for the rest of today. I still don't understand why only hemiptera may be called "bugs". Nor why erythrocyte is better than "red blood cells". But I will cheer for "neutrophil", "basophil", "macrophage", in preference to "white blood cell", and PLEASE don't say "invertebrate" around me. Might as well say that the color of the sky is "not-green", or "ingreen". So... back to pictures...)
Five feet. Who's is the big foot? (Sadly, we didn't see the bigfoot.) (Picnic area, Multnomah Falls)
The "$100,000 outhouse" (1916 dollars! Crown Point, Oregon)
Where does the forest go?
Hiking in the big trees
Who says the camera never lies? So solemn! JB without a twinkle in his eye?
On bridge....
Walking in the woods
Anti- surge tower, upper Elwha dam... if the trees aren't pretty enough by themselves to justify the picture.
Okay, so I got "arty"...
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Looks fun... might get "old" pretty quickly?
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Elwha River: Fish tight, for census at weir
Elwha River: Fish tight, for census at weir
Recording a salmon at the weir
Chinook going upstream to spawn... with a slight delay to be weighed and measured!
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Endangered bull trout being recorded by licensed scientists.
Dipper tries to compete with salmon for the limelight. Photo courtesy of Gene Helfman. (This also shows you a close-up of how the weir is constructed. 1" PVC pipe, 1-1/4" gaps. Lots of work here!)
Tom O'Keefe explains....
Where the wild things are?....
Botany is much under-rated. What animal can do something so clever?
Below here, for now... Some welcome contributions to the album from Peg Conklin. Thank you Peg! (Soemday I will try to make this more chronologicl.)
A part of Hatties I didn't see....
Stop after Mt St Helens. Courtesy of Peg Conklin.
An example of the good US Parks Service information centers. Courtesy of Peg Conklin.
Watching sea life, Cape Flattery. Courtesy of Peg Conklin.
VIP. (Below.) Courtesy of Peg Conklin.
Bambi says "hello", near Hurricaine Ridge. Courtesy of Peg Conklin.
Native American art. Courtesy of Peg Conklin.
Sunset over Pacific at Kalaloch Lodge. Courtesy of Peg Conklin.
Attractive arachnid near lower Elwha dam. Courtesy of Peg Conklin.
Makah whaler/ linguist/ host of good lunch: Darrell. Courtesy of Peg Conklin.
Please visit my page about some thoughts on the issues connected with the Indian casinos? It explains why I pointed out the trailer camp and the school/ municipal center.
Makah Museum, Neah Bay. Courtesy of Peg Conklin.
Although we were visiting the rainforest, there WERE days of good sun! (Note crisp shadows). And no days of heavy gales. The "rainfall" "totem pole" on the side of one of the lodges, showing the record year of twenty-five feet of rain, life-size, brought the statistic home effectively. Courtesy of Peg Conklin.
Learning about the Elwha dam removal. It really was NOT bad weather... but we were in a rainforest.... Courtesy of Peg Conklin.
Upland forest above Lake Quinault. Courtesy of Peg Conklin.
Lake Quinault Lodge. Courtesy of Peg Conklin.
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If you want more travel pictures, start at those I took in Istanbul and Athens in 2009, as a consolation to help me endure the fact that not enough people signed up for the CAU trip to Tanzania. From there, you can go to other trip albums, many of them made possible by CAU.
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