Happy Wednesday! We’ve crossed off another national park from our bucket list. We visited North Cascades National Park. This is Diablo Lake. Isn’t the water a gorgeous color of aqua green?!?
I learned something NEW (from Google, of course) about how the lake gets this beautiful coloring. It’s partly because of “glacial flour”. I’d never heard of glacial flour before. When massive glaciers move down the mountains and grind against mountain rocks, it makes an ultra-fine powder called glacial flour. Then, on a bright, sunny day, the tiny dust particles floating in the water bounce blue and green light back to our eyes, while absorbing other light colors. So pretty!
We’ve hit all 3 national parks in Washington in the last few weeks. Time to move to another state, haha!
I hope you have a terrific day and get to learn or do something NEW today!
Happy Friday! I just have a couple of updates today. One to my Lighthouses List and one to my National Parks List. We recently visited Robinson Point Lighthouse in Washington and Olympic National Park. I thought the wildflowers in Olympic were beautiful! What do you think?
Let’s see…my lighthouse collection is at 32, and we’re at 36 out of 63 for National Parks.
Progress! :o)
Have a great day, and I hope you do or learn or experience something NEW today!
Happy Wednesday! We recently visited some Thomas Dambo troll sculptures in the Seattle area. We originally became acquainted with the trolls when we were traveling in Rhode Island, and now I think I want to keep track of how many we can visit. I love me a good list!
If you aren’t familiar with Thomas Dambo, he’s a Danish sculptor. HERE is his website. It looks like most of his work is displayed in Denmark, but quite a few are here in the states. It’ll be fun to make it a priority to go see each troll if/when I’m near their locations. I’ll try to update this post with photos as we visit more.
Here goes:
Oscar the Bird King, Vashon Island, Washington
Bruun Idun, Seattle, Washington
Frankie Feetsplinter, Ballard, Seattle, Washington
Happy Monday! We’ve been seeing and doing so many NEW things lately, I almost forgot to update my lists with these items. Ha! We’ve visited 3 NEW lighthouses: Cape Mears Lighthouse in Oregon, Cape Disappointment Lighthouse, and North Head Lighthouse in Washington. (The full collection is HERE).
We’ve added another movie location to my list. I confess I previously hadn’t watched the movie, Goonies, so the night before we were to explore Astoria, Oregon, we watched this classic movie. Someone mentioned that last year was its 50th anniversary. How did I not watch it before now?!? We saw the courthouse (which is now a museum), the house, and, of course, Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach, which were all filming locations in the movie.
And TA-DA! I made it past 100 waterfalls! I originally thought I’d keep track of waterfalls until I hit 100, but why quit now, huh? I filled the bucket, but we’re far from being done!
We hiked to three waterfalls in Mt. Rainier National Park and 8 of the 10 waterfalls in Silver Falls State Park in Oregon. They were all wonderful, but some had more water than others. I confess I didn’t snap photos of all of them at Silver Falls State Park.
And that’s about it for this week. I hope you all have an excellent week ahead and get to learn or do something NEW this week.
Happy Tuesday! We’re on the road again in our RV, so we’re seeing and doing lots of NEW things. It’s time to update a few of my lists.
First of all, we’ve been to 3 NEW lighthouses (and are scheduled to visit many more in the coming days). We recently visited Yaquina Head Lighthouse, Yaquina Bay Lighthouse, and Heceta Head Lighthouse in Oregon.
As for my National Parks list, we visited Crater Lake National Park. It was a clear day and very beautiful!
Next, I’ll update my waterfalls list. We went on a nice, short (3 miles round-trip) hike to Drift Creek Falls, near Lincoln, Oregon. It features a suspension bridge, as well as a waterfall! Can you see our tiny shadows on the bridge as we took the first photo? And the next photo is of the falls together with the bridge.
I love me a good list! Haha! Even more, I love learning, doing, seeing, and experiencing NEW things! I hope you get to learn or do something NEW today too! Have a wonderful day!
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