It pays to spend a 2nd day at Yellowstone as yesterday after noon the weather cleared up and we got some blue skies.. Old faithful this time as it should be seen..
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#20321405/26/1101:37 PM
It was also animal day for Sue and I yesterday at Yellowstone.. By the way we are now in Mountain Home, Idaho tonight. I hope to get a couple of images from today of our drive through Idaho, up in the morning but 1st I want to catch up with the rest of my Yellowstone images I want to show..
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#20322905/27/1101:11 AM
We awoke yesterday to snow outside our window, it was snowing a little in Yellowstone, so we packed up and headed toward the West gate and Idaho.. Once we got to Idaho we drove out of the snow.
We were cutting across the state to visit the Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve.. It is a huge National Park as it is the size of Rhode Island..
It is made up of lava flows from fissures in the earth and not a volcano..
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#20324505/27/1101:24 PM
I had a little Photoshop fun with the next image... the 1st one is straight as it is in nature and I Photoshopped an effect on the image that match how the scene affected me..
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#20326605/27/1109:32 PM
Today we left Idaho in a drizzle and it rained off and on but in between we did have some really nice moment driving up the east side of Oregon to our hotel in Pendleton, OR... Pendleton of Pendleton clothing fame....
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#20326705/27/1110:06 PM
Alaska, a cruise, HL reunion, meeting Bill Younger, these are 4 things I wish I could have taken off my bucket list.
Add a fifth, taken the long way and site-seeing all the way there. Priceless !!!
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#20327805/28/1106:01 PM
Having lunch right now near Portland.. We just went to some waterfalls in the area East of here and of course the only time it was rainy and overcast all morning was when we were at the waterfalls..
The drive over following the Columbia River was great.. I will load up some images when we get to our hotel..
Heceta Head, tomorrow, Bob!
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#20328205/28/1108:25 PM
You spoken have never spoken truer words it has rained and rained.. I will try and catch up.. i did get yesterday's breakfast at Heceta Head up on facebook.. I will try and get some of them up tonight here.. We are in Amanda Park, WA tonight and Point No Point Lighthouse the next two nights. i am not sure but probably no internet the next two nights unless I find a McDonalds near by..
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#20338306/03/1104:59 PM
I finally got back to internet access today, right now in Seattle waiting for our room.. I am in Derith's room which was ready, Sue's bugging me right now as we are doing laundry today until others arrive for a gathering at Anthony's for dinner as a group, then lighthousing tomorrow with 30 others..
Here's an image of Umpqua Light that I shot in the rain on May 29th so I tried an effect called single image tone mapping HDR on it..
And of course one from inside the Fresnel..
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#20339006/03/1106:24 PM
Next up is May 30, 2011 Breakfast number two at Heceta Head...
The co-owner of the Bed & Breakfast, Steve is serving our breakfast for the second day.. To the left of Steve is a really nice couple from Germany that joined us on day two for us..
To the right of Steve is a local man who is serving our country as a Medic in the Navy and was home on leave; he is a friend of the B & B staff and joined us for breakfast..
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#20339606/03/1108:21 PM
After spending the night in Amanda, WA we had breakfast at a lodge in Olympic Park, then headed North to the Makah Tribe's Museum in Neah Bay, WA.. Sue wanted to get some actual Native American crafted gifts for our Grand-daughters; we had been there in 2001, before Grand-daughters.. The flower shots are from outside the Museum, no pictures allowed inside, sorry it is a fantastic little Mueum..
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#20340306/04/1112:55 AM
One more image of Point No Point that should go before the keeper's house image above.. I shot this from the beach of the lighthouse when we 1st arrived..
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#20340706/04/1101:28 AM
Next a couple of images from our boat trip yesterday June 2, 2011.. 1st an image of New Dungeness, it was pretty overcast all 4 hours we spent on the water but no rain..
The second image is of Point Wilson Light from the water..
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#20340806/04/1101:28 AM
Hopefully a few more of June 3, 2011 images then I will start a Part III thread since we start the Derith pre-cruise tour of Washington Lights tomorrow real early..
I believe we end up in Lacey, WA tomorrow night..
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#20341106/04/1101:50 AM
A sneak peek of our Cruise Ship we will be boarding one week from today.. It was loading passengers for the same cruise this week when we came over to Seattle on a ferry around noon today.. It is big!
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#20341706/04/1105:09 PM