While traveling on the Pacific Coast side of Olympic National Park, there were frequent warnings about beach logs killing people.
Now, I’m from the East Coast. I know about widow-makers in the forest, but beach logs?
And then I went hiking on the beach…and yeah. There are thousands of **massive** Douglas Fir logs getting hurled up on the beach like Mother Nature *really* does not want you there.
Chicago is one of my favorite cities. And wow, does Chicago know how to do a skyline. It’s really impressive.
It’s late summer in Georgia, and mosquitoes are everywhere. Specifically, there are Asian Tiger Mosquitoes everywhere – the invasive, pesky,…
Looking over the pond at Kubota Garden in Seattle, Washington
I always imagined the Okefenokee Swamp to be mostly dark, green, cypress forest. It’s not. It’s mostly open “prairie” covered in a couple feet of water. It’s beautiful, haunting, and full of life. But the lack of trees really gives a sense of how big the place is.
In the Spring, the neighborhood is known for its azaleas, dogwoods, and peach blossoms but in the Fall, we have…
Laura S. Walker State Park is a very underrated state park in Georgia. It is in between Waycross and the northern entrance of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Life Refuge. The park has lovely cabins, a great day use area, a beautiful lake, and the landscape is enchanting with pine trees and South Georgia flatwoods.
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