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| This was a hike to a pair of waterfalls. At the top of the first hill, through the tree, you could see the "twin" falls. We then headed back down as the trail wandered near the river. |
We saw this beautiful relative of the geranium flowering amongst many other kinds of plants. |
Anna believes this is actually a stinging nettle, despite it's pretty leaf. We steered clear. |
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| I tried over and over to get a picture of a salmonberry flower, but I'm not that skilled yet with my camera. This is the least fuzzy. |
Another picture of a salmonberry; you can see some of the few thorns that it has caught by the sun. |
We saw these small white flowers in patches along the path. |
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| Slug! (number three or four at this point...) |
A beetle was making its way slowly across these salmonberry leaves. |
A moth. |
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| Life grows everywhere in the wet forest; this plant was growing out of the side of a tree. |
A miniature 'forest' growing on a rotting long. |
This tree appeared to have a claw in the upper right, clinging to the rotting stump that served as its nurse log. |
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| We were at a much lower elevation, and all of the plants were much further along in their growth. |
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A flock of leaves appeared to spin around this moss-covered tree. |
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| I think Anna said this was a relative of a carrot. Or... something. |
It's hard to see at this distance, but this tree was covered with small pink flowers. |
This was the most beautiful "snag" (stump) we saw during the hike. |
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| There was lots of moss, including this moss that we later slid over on our way down to the river. |
The trail actually continued up to a bridge between the two falls, but the trail had a fair number of people on it, so we ducked off of it and headed for the river instead. |
We got quite a ways along the boulders on the river, and never slipped in. If the water hadn't been so cold and fast (it's still early in the year) we would have crossed it and wandered closer to the waterfall. |
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| We still got close enough to see it, though. That dark area to the right unfortunately is not a cave, it's just a deep depression in the rock. |
There was algae growing on the rocks, but even where they looked bare, they were still amazingly slippery -- almost frictionless. |
The river was fast and beautiful. |
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The rocks shaped the path of the river. |
Many of the rocks had holes in them, where a smaller rock had been trapped and kept spinning around with the currents, creating an increasingly wider and deeper hole. |
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| This was the best close-up of water that I got on our whole vacation. |
Downstream, it wound its way through the forest. |
A fallen tree by the river had been worn smooth by the water running near it. |
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