The Ferry to Whidbey Island, Mukiltoe, WA

A Mukiltoe dusk

Near the rim of Mt Helena

Mt Helena Nat Park, 2015

Above Paradise Inn, Mt Rainier

Longmire, Mt Rainier Nat Park

The Meadows at Emmon’s Glacier

The Pacific Northwest is a beautifully haunting expanse. This collection of national parks, deep waters and waterfronts ferries, bestow upon the traveller and its inhabitants a sense perpetual optimism, rugged individualism, and a vision of endless summer days.  From gentile historical inns in the heart of national parks to the leisurely dust-swirl of the roadway motels and their baby-boomer bikers, the road warrior trudges on, egged on by the quiet industry of breaking fast with bleu- cheese burgers and bacon strips, mesmerised by the hauntingly disconnected beauty of rugged alpine glaciers, summer flowers, dry meadows and dusty tracks.