Quibault National Park, Washington, USA. 31st October to 1st November 2018.

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This post follows on from a series of posts on Andalusia and Barcelona in Spain.  The area we are now in was claimed for Spain in 1775 by Don Bruna de Heceta.  It is not recorded what the local people thought of this or whether they even knew.  I didn’t encounter any Spanish-speaking people though, perhaps because it was never settled by Spain.  We are also maybe 200 kilometres north of New Spain, although we are nearly 180 years too late for that.  Polk seized about a third of Mexico then to form the south-western states of the US.  These days that war would have been a violation of international law, but that did not exist then.  We are so fortunate to live in a civilised age where arbitrary wars in violation of international law are unthinkable.

So we landed in Portland, Oregon, where I left Jools for a conference and headed off for Washington State.

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I stayed for the night at Quinault River Inn, arriving in the early afternoon.  This is a view not far from my room, of a small pagola and a glimpse of Quinault Lake in the background.

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A small part of Quinault Lake.

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Douglas Fir.

Nearby was Quinault Rainforest Nature Loop, so I went for a walk there.  This Douglas Fir would have grown in a patch of ground cleared by a large forest fire.  Otherwise, in the rainforest there is not enough light for seedlings to survive.  This tree is estimated to be 400 years old.  They can be as old as 900.

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We are in an area of temperate rainforest, stretching up the coast to Alaska but not present elsewhere in North America.  The local area has 3.7 meters of rain per year (12 feet).

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I took the time for some macro photography, using a macro lens and presumably a tripod.  This is a single shot.

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This one and the next are focus stacks, combining multiple images for greater depth of field.

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Lake Quinault.

The next morning I took off on a drive around the lake.  Here is a view across the lake with what may be piles of a forgotten wharf, two cormorants and a distant foggy background.  This image and the next two are different exposures rather than different crops, though they appear to be taken from the same viewpoint.

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A corner of the lake with varied autumn foliage.

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This image and the next are probably small waterfalls at the side of the road.

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Autumn leaves and ferns.

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Merriman Falls.

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Merriman Creek.

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A branch of the Quinault River (this image and the next).

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Bunch Falls.

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Autumn leaves in the rainforest.

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Quinault River.  The bridge at the end of the Lake Quinault Drive on the distance.

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The last images (including the following three) are taken nearly an hour later, and are of the edges of Lake Quinault.

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(Usually I post once a week but there may be delays in the next few weeks).

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