We arrived home on Sunday evening. Having been gone for nearly four weeks, we had a lot of things to catch up on, but I have finally organized all my photos from the last week of our vacation, so here is a sampling.
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| Peter on the 1912 50-meter-high suspension bridge over Lynn Canyon, North Vancouver |
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| Cliff jumping at Twin Falls along Lynn Creek |
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| Peter, Sherri and John Watts on the boardwalk over the bay in Bellingham, Washington |
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| View of some of the San Juan Islands from the ferry crossing from Anacortes, WA, to Sidney on Vancouver Island |
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| Fuscia in Butchart Gardens north of Victoria on Vancouver Island |
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| Sunken Garden created in an abandoned quarry in Butchart Gardens |
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| Beautiful blooms landscaped in wonderful contrasting colors everywhere! |
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| More flowers in Butchart Gardens |
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| Ross Fountain beyond the Sunken Garden |
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| A few dahlias among hundreds of dahlia plants |
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| The Dragon Fountain, a gift from the People's Republic of China |
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| Peter in the rose garden around sunset |
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| Part of the rose garden and flowers hanging from trellises |
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| Butchart Cove at sunset |
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| Italian Garden in front of the Butchart's former home |
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| Peter beside two old wooden-masted ships in the Inner Harbour of Victoria, the Fairmont Empress Hotel behind him. Smoke from wildfires in Washington dulled the sunlight. |
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| Whale sculpture by the Inner Harbour with British Columbia Parliament Building in the left background |
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| Topiary whale in front of the Empress Hotel |
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| Inner Harbour of Victoria |
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| Smoke filled air created an atmospheric effect by Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park, WA |
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| Sign on the side of a store in Forks, Washington, the setting for the Twilight novel/film series |
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| Second Beach in Olympic National Park |
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| Lobby of the Lake Quinault Lodge in Olympic National Park |
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| View from the terrace of Lake Quinault Lodge |
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| Colorful fungi clung to the trunks of trees amid ferns and lichen in the Quinault rainforest |
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| A frog in the rainforest |
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| Northern Oregon coast |
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| Oregon Sand Dunes Recreation Area, which stretches along the coast for 40 miles |
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| Flowers and grasses on a path to the beach in Oregon Sand Dunes |
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| Northern Oregon coast |
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| Old wooden lifeboat on display at the Lifeboat Museum in Port Orford, Oregon |
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| Southern Oregon coast |
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| Windsurfers on the southern Oregon coast |
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| Peter near our campsite by the Smith River in northern California |
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| Fog obscuring the water and surrounding small islands on the northern California coast |
