Vacation pictures, the Hoh'm stretch

[urbpan]

Where was I? Oh yeah, tree moss that looks like curly hair:







And then a glacial river. I don't know which one.



We bumped into the same couple twice. The second time, we said hi, and took pictures for each other. I wished I'd gotten a picture of them, but I didn't' think of it. They were the only lesbian couple I saw out in the sticks (that always makes me happy), and we were plenty weird looking (my dad says that a lot of people probably mistake us for a very strange gay couple), so it was nice to meet friendly strangers.



Most of the forest along the road between Port Angeles and the Hoh rainforest (rt 101) is managed, which is to say, logged. It has a very different character than the relatively unmanaged forests we saw elsewhere. It makes me want to reduce my paper use.



They didn't get to this one! The biggest Sitka spruce in the Hoh rainforest, a 500 year old, 12 foot diameter monster.



Every time I saw heavy moss growth I took a picture. I had to stop eventually, because, well, you know.























It was too dry for many mushrooms. Only one picture's worth. I bet there are more in the rainy season.



In the visitor's center they had lots of great information. There must have been 50 different species of lichen samples to look at.

Comments

[candent.livejournal.com]

Your Dad sounds like he has a good sense of humor.

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

Is that hanging moss a true moss or is it a bromeliad, as is the South's Spanish Moss? Or maybe something else - mini arboreal octopi?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

It mostly appeared to be true moss--bryophytes. I didn't see any Spanish moss in the pnw, and the arboreal octopi go into mucus coccoons in the thickest moss, or back to pools of water, in the dry season.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

breathtaking.

really. am speechless. wow.

[anais2.livejournal.com]

That is the real forest primeval. It's beautiful!

[droserary.livejournal.com]

Ahh, yes, visual overload. I'm familiar... Had the same thing happen to me at the Quinault Rainforest. Just so many beautiful trees/scenes/things to see. I needed a picture to capture every single one.