Vacation pictures, the Hoh'm stretch
Aug. 31st, 2006 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urbpanWhere 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.
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.
