A Gallery: Delights & Splendors of Cascadia

[cascadiabound]

Next time you are there...if it is spring time...drive the scenic route of the Gorge. It will be waterfall after waterfall. Seriously...you can easily catch 25 to 30 BIG falls...and if you want to hike in...holy shit it is pretty. These are less than 30 minutes from downtown.

If you are there in the summer...go up Mount Hood. Or if you have more time and want the shore...Cape Perpetua or Lookout is nice. Decent tide pools. Just looking for a pleasant time...Pacific City/Nescowin.

If you are there in winter...and have time...Hoh forest on coast of Washington. It is about 3 hours from Portland one way...but you will never see anything like it. It is God's vacation.

Don't get me wrong...there are hundreds of nice beaches. All public accessed. I love Ona Beach cause that's where I lived and where my daughter was born. But what I have highlighted here gives you dozens of choices at each

@Dribble is exactly right

 

[cascadiabound]

Mt Baker from Whidbey Island, WA

 

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They make the most amazing walking sticks. Super hard. You can dull a saw blade in minutes

super hard, but also terrible furniture wood because it has so much seasonal movement in it (ask me how I know)

 

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Another Sequim Lavender Farm....it's lavender festival season!

 

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Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, OR

love that "Jesus" sky

 

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Spectacular Britsh Columbia
I wish I knew exactly where this was taken

 

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La Push, 2nd Beach. WA
My favorite bit of the north coast of WA
Spectacular!

 

[Dribble]

Giggles....werewolf territory

 

[cascadiabound]

Giggles....werewolf territory

Forks has made money hand over fist thanks to that franchise.
I have some friends who came to visit WA from Sweden a number of years ago. They had a rental car and drove around the Pennisula. They rolled into Forks at dinner time only to discover there was some huge Twilight event and not a single room to be had. There are not a lot of options out there, so they decided to get some dinner at the diner and see if they could figure a plan. The waitress took pity on them and put them up in her guest room. They could hardly stop laughing about how surreal the whole thing was !

 

[cascadiabound]

Thor's Well in Cape Perpetua, OR

 

[cascadiabound]

Wizard's Hat, Bandon OR

 

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Thor's Well in Cape Perpetua, OR

Spectacular!

I just found this, I have a lot of catching up to do.

 

[cascadiabound]

Washington Ferry - Puget Sound Summer - Sunset behind the Olympics.... I can taste the air.
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[cascadiabound]

Strathcona Provincial Park. BC

 

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Leaving LaPush harbor

 

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N. Bend WA

 

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Sundial Butchart Garden, Victoria BC

 

[cascadiabound]

With Spouting Horn just along the coast?

Yes. They are both right there

 

[haha_on_me]

Sundial shadow magic
Cascadia garden

Is this yours? I love this.❤

 

[cascadiabound]

The Enchantments at sunrise

 

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Eagles!

 

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Eagles!

I've had them visit my place.

 

[cascadiabound]

Mt St Helens and wildflowers

 

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Ecola OR

 

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Lightning strike on the Palouse. WA
The tiny lights on the horizon are on wind turbines