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With my new Canon 28mm f/1.8 USM lens. By the way, Café Ladro means coffee thief - because they’re stealing customers from elsewhere.

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Bill took us (Clare, Me, Nick, Faye, Schuyler) out on his boat.  Very nice.  Had a picnic on the boat and watched the sunset.  Very nearly got snared up in nets that a native tribe had placed round the marina (they have Salmon fishing rights in Lake Union).

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Here is a bunch of photos from the above wedding, we had a fabulous time. Nick and Faye looked so happy, it was lovely.

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This was a waterfall right at the end of our journey through the Cascades which I had fun trying to photograph, you can judge how successful I was!

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These were the dramatic looking lakes right up high in the Cascades. The first one is Ross Lake and the second Diablo, the interesting colour in Diablo Lake is from Glacial ‘flour’, ground from the surrounding rock.

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This was an amazing day, I took so many photos I ran out of space. The drive we took was really spectacular and we also saw lots of ageing bikers. The photos are of:

a glacial river on the way up the pass;

Liberty Bell (big mountain that looks like a bell x2);

Washington Pass Overlook (down the road we came up);

a roadside waterfall;

a plane going over the top of the Cascades;

arty rock face (for George xx);

burnt tree

and finally a cute shot of Mum and Dad.

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The Original Frontier town - went to Three Fingered Jack’s for dinner. We also stayed at a really lovely inn with hot tub, which the night photo is taken from.

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This place was very America wild west, as you can see from the photos, Mum did still attempt to get a cappuccino in the General Store.

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A very, very large lake, which had lots of people on it, we however drove right up into the mountains and had a picnic completely isolated above the hub bub.

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Leavenworth is a faux Bavarian town (used to just be a logging outpost) in the middle of the Cascades. It was slightly disappointing, this is a photo of one of the buildings on the High Street.

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After leaving Yakima we went up a very barren valley (to the point where is was a moon-like landscape) and stopped for lunch by a grove of redwoods. Dad and I paddled in the river.

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It was pretty hot when we got here, and took us as long to find the hotel from the airport as it took George to get all the way back to Seattle in his little aeroplane. This picture is of the Soda Fountain (’Grease’ - like hangout) outside Yakima Museum, which we spent a morning wandering around.

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We went down from Seattle through a place called Enumclaw (something to do with evil spirits - though they do damn good mochas) and got to Rainier in the afternoon. It was awesome. I have included a picture of Rainier from Seattle (UDub) at the start to try and give a bit of scale. Being somewhat interested in rocks I also have to include the extrusive basalt columns (sorry).

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This was the same day as we went to Rialto Beach and the weather was completely different as soon as we left the coast, you could see this huge receding cloud bank. The rainforest was very spectacular, look at the size of the tree in the last picture. Even though we went on to stay at Ocean Shores and drove through Hoquiam, Aberdeen, Olympia (the State Capital) and Tacoma, these are the last decent photos from the Olympic Peninsula.

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Rialto Beach was atmospheric, ghostly and was pretty chilly after the hot weather in Seattle, in fact the Pacific coast was not all that peachy in terms of weather. We had a lovely time on the beach; particularly Mum and I picking up lots of stones (pebbles really), though I did have to unload a couple to Dad in the end.

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I think this was possibly the most serene and stunning place we saw, though you can see already there was some pretty stiff competition.

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This place is amazing, it took us an hour to get up and an hour to get down and I dropped the camera. It was still so stunning and dramatic. The views are of Hurricane Ridge and then of the glacier on top of Mount Olympus, which was about 18 miles away.

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We went through Port Gamble on the first day and found the little old till in the local store which was also bizarrely a museum of the area and a storehouse of a phenomenal amount of shells from around the pacific ocean. Then we stayed the night in Port Townsend in a place called the Pacific Inn Motel, not too shabby, and the Mexican that night was not too bad either. The mountains and the boat were taken from just outside our motel window!

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These are photos which have taken a long time to appear on the blog. It was a great couple of days and we saw lots of beautiful things. To start we went across to Bainbridge Island on the ferry. I thought I would include an American flag to start this album off, and then there is a seagull taken from the Bainbridge Ferry and finally Mum and Dad standing at the front of the ferry as we set off.

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At safeco field

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Guess it’s Jonny Five

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I was going to take a rather gruelling trip back to Seattle from Yakima on the greyhound bus. But I discovered you could fly cheaply with Alaska air. Fun flight, wish I’d had my canon with me.. But these were fun too.

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Slightly Abstract

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Is it a cloud? No it is big volcanic mountain which used to be called Tahoma (”mother of waters”) and is approx. 14000 feet high.

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