My first trip to Seattle was in 2004 with 3 of my friends. Ever since, Seattle area has captured my imagination in more ways than one. Starting with Microsoft, Seattle is home to lot of good/reputed brand names - Starbucks, Amazon, Costco, Washington Mutual (not any more as we speak) - all these from a surprisingly unassuming and template neighbourhood of Seattle.
I made my second trip to this area this time as a family man with a kid recently for the 2008 labour day weekend. My first trip photos taken in the Olympic Rain forests area had enchanted my wife to a great extent. Hence we decided to spend a lot of time there in our trip.
We spent around 2 and half days outside of Seattle metro - in snowqualmie falls (half day) and in Olympics (2 full days - Lake Quinault, Hoh rain forest, Hurricane ridge and Sol Duc Falls). Attached pic is one from Sol Duc Falls. Labor day time frame is amazing in Seattle. Literally no rain for a place known for rainfall though the beauty created by rain during rest of the year still lingers there for one to see. I returned the raincoats we had bought for the trip !!! My wife put a quarantine on us visiting Mt. Rainier after I told her that its a volcano...I should have held it off till we reached the mount. But her cheer was short lived as she was literrally alarmed by all the tsunami warnings posted along 101 highway in the olympic area near the shores :-) Anyways, we got to see Mt Rainer in pristine glory from Space Needle and also from the highways across the lake Union if I am right. I was a bit saddened by some deforestation in Olympic area though there were claims of trees being replanted in equal amounts.
Visited our friend VRSridharan at Kirkland. Good trip overall and timely that too since I had just got my Nikon D40 a month ago. All pics in this blog that I took are from that. Would definitely visit this place again if I get a chance.
I made my second trip to this area this time as a family man with a kid recently for the 2008 labour day weekend. My first trip photos taken in the Olympic Rain forests area had enchanted my wife to a great extent. Hence we decided to spend a lot of time there in our trip.
We spent around 2 and half days outside of Seattle metro - in snowqualmie falls (half day) and in Olympics (2 full days - Lake Quinault, Hoh rain forest, Hurricane ridge and Sol Duc Falls). Attached pic is one from Sol Duc Falls. Labor day time frame is amazing in Seattle. Literally no rain for a place known for rainfall though the beauty created by rain during rest of the year still lingers there for one to see. I returned the raincoats we had bought for the trip !!! My wife put a quarantine on us visiting Mt. Rainier after I told her that its a volcano...I should have held it off till we reached the mount. But her cheer was short lived as she was literrally alarmed by all the tsunami warnings posted along 101 highway in the olympic area near the shores :-) Anyways, we got to see Mt Rainer in pristine glory from Space Needle and also from the highways across the lake Union if I am right. I was a bit saddened by some deforestation in Olympic area though there were claims of trees being replanted in equal amounts.
Visited our friend VRSridharan at Kirkland. Good trip overall and timely that too since I had just got my Nikon D40 a month ago. All pics in this blog that I took are from that. Would definitely visit this place again if I get a chance.
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