This Beautiful Place-Talapus and Olallie Lakes (Pt 2)

The mushrooms on this hike totally blew my mind! I was thrilled to the point of ridiculousness to see so many mushrooms throughout the entire hike and in some spots at least a dozen different types completely surrounding me! AH! Finally!!! The whole hike was stimulating with all these unfamiliar mushrooms to check out but I also found a few other critters about!

This frozen bee completely surprised me but I took the opportunity to kinda poke him (nicely of course!) and check him out! Fun and random - apparently the whole swarm will become docile just before transporting the Queen to a new hive and there's some crazy videos out there of people scooping them up and just holding handful of chill bees. Pretty neat. There was plenty of toads in the creeks and I found this little mini mini one! And I have to admit, I love this photo below! If you look closely you can see mini frog, chillin, staring out across his entire universe.

 

This Beautiful Place: Deception Falls Pt 1

I recently had the pleasure of attending a camping birthday up North a bit, in the Stephens Pass area. It was short and sweet but I still managed to take an excessive amount of photos so I've broken the photo dump into two posts. This first one has some photos from around the campground and of the hike we took along a gushing river, which brought us to a really cool log bridge (see bridge in my next post!).

Campground bubbles glittering in the sun

Have you ever seen Fern Gully?

The lone sunlit tree, must be special!

Verbena and friend

Neat little root cave

The view downstream...

The view upstream

Campground poi art