[Leica] First part of our trip

[Aram Langhans]

After 6 weeks of no email and a battle with CenturyLink, I have given up 
on them and will try Gmail.  Let's see how this works. Sorry, a long 
post as I have not been able to post before on this trip.   We started 
out in the Puget Sound area with a visit to a friend north of Shelton.  
This shell was on her beach.

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 From there we camped by Port Angeles and one day took the ferry over to 
Victoria for the day.  Always a great place to wander around by foot.

Government Street has been converted to mainly foot traffic so a great 
place to wander.

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No trip to Victoria is complete without a visit to the Murchie Tea store 
to get a year's supply of tea and have lunch.

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Then off to Chinatown and Fan Tan Alley

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Passenger on the ferry ride back to Victoria.  Since we are both nursing 
knees we did not stay too late but caught the 3PM ferry back to the states.

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Rounding the corner of the state and heading south we camped at 
Kalaoch.  No visit to Kalaloch is complete without seeing the Tree of 
Life, which is getting closer to the end of its life as erosion proceeds 
and now people are climbing on it to hasten its demise. A few shots on 
different days with different light.

Kalaloch-Tree of Life-1005041-Pano.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr 
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There were some interesting shots right behind our campsite.  i kept 
expecting to see some dinosaurs.

Kalaloch-1005053.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr 
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So, from the NW tip of Washington to the SW tip.  A few lighthouses in 
the Long Beach/Ilwaco area.

North Head-0400.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr 
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Cape Disappointment Lighthoouse-1005099.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr 
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An finally to the Oregon boarder.  The Astoria bridge over the Columbia 
river fro the rest area where we spend the night

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Comments welcome.  Whew.  Glad to be back

Aram







-- 
Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
  
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.”   James D. Watson