Place: Glimpses of Pacific North West...

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”

― George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Above quote fits well to describe our recent vacation in Pacific North West.......
Some pictures.
Rainier National Park..
Nisqually river...

Mount Rainier....lava in core....glaciers at crown...paradox!

Meadows...Tatoosh range in the backdrop..

Narada falls..

Chinook pass in Mount Rainier National forest..

Olympic National Park..

Cascade spawn sites in Sol Duc river..

Hobuk beach..

Rialto beach..

Ruby beach...

Rain forest..

Many more to come...