[Leica] First part of our trip

[Peter Dzwig]

Looks beautiful weather. Hope you had as good a time as it looks, 
despite the knees!

I think that my favourites are the North Head lighthouse and details, 
Fan Tan Alley and the tees in the woods near your campsite.

Peter

On 16/10/2025 02:31, Aram Langhans via LUG wrote:
> 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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> Beach Shell-1004968.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr <https:// 
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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.
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> 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.
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> There were some interesting shots right behind our campsite.  i kept 
> expecting to see some dinosaurs.
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> So, from the NW tip of Washington to the SW tip.  A few lighthouses in 
> the Long Beach/Ilwaco area.
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> Cape Disappointment Lighthoouse-1005099.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr 
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> album-72177720329691431/>
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> album-72177720329691431/>
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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
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Dr. Peter Dzwig