Bunchberry on the forest floor
Today we started with a little trip to The World’s Biggest
Sitka Spruce: you see just the bottom of the trunk in the
first picture, and Ray and Virginia Cannata show the tree’s
scale. (Big image; small.)
In the second picture, almost all of us are admiring the tree’s
immensity. (Big image; small.)
Here, in the first picture (big image, small),
Mark gets up close and personal with the giant, and in the second
(big image, small),
Regan Voit and Bill Laughrey rest on the slopes of its trunk.
The main part of the walking today was a single hike, the first part of which was
a long gradual climb, probably more demanding than most of the other
walks we did on this tour. Started near where Graves Creek flows
into the Quinault River, then up along the Quinault River, continuing
beyond Pony Bridge. (Mark’s page for this day will show a map.)
The first picture
(big image, small)
shows the view westward (downstream) along the
Quinault, from the Pony Bridge.
The second (big image, small)
is one of the few long views we got during this walk—we were in a forest,
after all.
We stopped for lunch at a nice beach along the river, and Ray immediately pulled out
his fly rod and started to fish. I stood apart from most of the people and took
long-distance shots with my long-focus lens.
In the first
picture (big image, small),
Kathryn Bardsley, Mary Pineau (shading her eyes),
Sondra Boes, Dede Stokes, and Mark all watch, in hopes that Ray will catch something.
The next shot is
probably the nicest photograph I took during the tour,
and you should make all effort to look at the
large image—if not, be satisfied
with the small. I also took a few shots of the
vegetation along the side of the river, too.
(Big image; small.)
Back by the same route, a snack at the vans before piling in for a ride back to Lake Quinault Lodge for drink, food, and rest.
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