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Let the tsunami of fun begin! Thomas requested this photo, so he's both model and art director. I just press the buttons on the camera.
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Our first orca sighting! This is Olympia, btw, we're not visiting Seattle until the end of the trip.
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The Washington State Capitol. Not to be confused with our nation's capital, Washington D.C. Even the spellings are different, capitol v. capital.
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The road trip begins. Aka, the red coats are coming. (Wrong side of the country, I know, stop nitpicking.)
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And our first banana slug sighting! We saw several during this relatively short hike, but I tried to restrain myself in terms of slug photography.
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Dear fellow Quinault Rain Forest hikers, please stop touching the "you are here" portion of the maps. Your grimy paw prints are wearing away the details of the trail. Thanks!
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Another big tree. This one was mostly hollow. I think it loses biggest tree points for that.
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...Hobbit-y tree home door. One of us probably should have posed with it for scale, but trust me, it's small.
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And now a change of scenery - camping at Kalaloch (pronounce Clay-lock) on the Pacific ocean.
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Elk crossing. They're not very good at it, as evidenced by the large dead elk (and lightly mangled car) we saw later in the trip.
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Near the waterfall on the Hoh River trail. Some people do overnight hikes here, but we just did a day hike because I'm lazy about schlepping a bunch of camping gear through a goddamn rainforest.
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Thomas's rainforest photos all came out blurry, probably because the Hoh River ghosts didn't like him.
